Illimitable
[i'limitәbl]
Definition
(adj.) without limits in extent or size or quantity; 'limitless vastness of our solar system' .
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Definition
(a.) Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Boundless, infinite, unbounded, immense, vast.
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Definition
adj. that cannot be bounded: infinite.—n. Illim′itableness.—adv. Illim′itably.—n. Illimitā′tion.—adj. Illim′ited.
Typist: Suzy
Examples
- There it is, in front of us, as in front of Sappho, the illimitable space. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Thus Society escapes, and the illimitable power of Chemistry remains the slave of the most superficial and the most insignificant ends. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Chemistry especially has always had irresistible attractions for me from the enormous, the illimitable power which the knowledge of it confers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But the great, dark, illimitable kingdom of death, there humanity was put to scorn. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Death itself, like the illimitable space, is beyond our sullying. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But it is when we turn to electricity that the rich virgin condition of an illimitable new kingdom of discovery is seen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Suzy