unbottomed

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ bottom +‎ -ed.

Adjective

unbottomed (not comparable)

1. (dated) bottomless

   Synonyms: limitless, unbounded; see also Thesaurus:infinite

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 2, lines 404–5:

     who shall tempt with wand'ring feet / The dark unbottom'd infinite Abyss

   • 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:

     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.

References

• “unbottomed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.