bottomless

bottomless

English

Etymology

From Middle English botemles, botmeles, equivalent to bottom +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒtəm.ləs/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾəmlɨs/

Adjective

bottomless (not comparable)

1. Having no bottom.
   • 2021 May 5, “Open Access: Saving our structures”, in RAIL, number 930, page 40:

     And while the railway's finances will forever remain a bottomless black hole, Highways England finances are rapidly becoming a bottomless pothole!

2. Extremely deep.
3. Having no bounds; limitless.

   The restaurant offered bottomless drinks.

   • 2021, Rebecca Reid, Rude: Stop Being Nice and Start Being Bold (page 199)

     I get a message from some school friends about a bottomless brunch they want to go to.

4. Difficult to understand; unfathomable.
5. Not wearing clothes below the waist; particularly not wearing clothes that would cover the genitalia.
6. (Philippines) refillable (usually for iced tea or other such cold beverages)

Synonyms

• (having no bounds; limitless): boundless, limitless, unbottomed, unbounded; see also Thesaurus:infinite

Coordinate terms

• (not wearing clothes below the waist): topless, naked

Derived terms

• bottomless pit

Translations

having no bottom

Bulgarian: без дъно (bez dǎno), без седалка (bez sedalka) Czech: bezedný Danish: bundløs Esperanto: senfunda Finnish: alaosaton (fi); pohjaton (fi) Greek: άπατος (el) (ápatos) Ancient: ἄβυσσος (ábussos) Italian: senza fondo Lithuanian: bedugnis Middle English: botemles Polish: bezdenny (pl) Russian: бездо́нный (ru) (bezdónnyj) Sanskrit: अबुध्न (sa) (abudhna) Spanish: sin fondo Swedish: bottenlös (sv) Turkish: altsız (literal-sense 1)

extremely deep

Bulgarian: бездънен (bg) (bezdǎnen) Czech: bezedný Danish: bundløs Dutch: bodemloos (nl), bodemloze (nl) Finnish: pohjaton (fi) French: insondable (fr) Greek: άπατος (el) (ápatos) Ancient: ἄβυσσος (ábussos) Italian: senza fondo Lithuanian: bedugnis Old English: grundlēas Russian: бездо́нный (ru) (bezdónnyj) Turkish: dipsiz (tr)

having no bounds; limitless

Finnish: rajaton (fi), pohjaton (fi) Italian: senza fondo Polish: bezdenny (pl), niezgłębiony

difficult to understand

Finnish: käsittämätön (fi)

naked from the waist down

Danish: bar underkrop Faroese: brókaleysur Finnish: alaosaton (fi), paljaspeppuinen, paljaspyllyinen French: cul-nu, cul nu (fr), les fesses à l'air Icelandic: berrassaður Middle English: botemles Russian: без штанов (ru) (bez štanov), бесштанный (ru) (besštannyj), голый ниже пояса m (golyj niže pojasa), голозадый (ru) m (golozadyj), голозадая (ru) f (golozadaja), голозадое (ru) n (golozadoje), в голозадом виде m (v golozadom vide) Swedish: bottenlös (sv), byxlös Vietnamese: cởi truồng