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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unbottomed en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + bottom + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (dated, not-comparable) bottomless
    • who shall tempt with wand'ring feet / The dark unbottom'd infinite Abyss 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 2, lines 404–5:
    • The atoms, as their own weight bears them down / Plumb through the void, at scarce determined times, / In scarce determined places, from their course / Decline a little – call it, so to speak, / Mere changed trend. For were it not their wont / Thuswise to swerve, down would they fall, each one, / Like drops of rain, through the unbottomed void; / And then collisions ne'er could be nor blows / Among the primal elements; and thus / Nature would never have created aught. 1916, William Ellery Leonard, transl., On the Nature of Things, New York: E. P. Dutton, translation of De rerum natura by Lucretius, →OCLC, Book 2, lines 218–227:

Synonyms

limitless · endless · infinite · boundless · unbounded · unbounded · unbottomed · unlimited · bottomless · universal · limitless