bottomless

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒtəm.ləs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbatəmlɪs/

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.

4. Of a meal: accompanied by unlimited 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.

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

Synonyms

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

Coordinate terms

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

Derived terms

• bottomlessly
• bottomlessness
• 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)
• Sicilian: scuffatu m, senza funnu
• 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)
• Sicilian: senza funnu
• 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 (fr), cul nu (fr), les fesses à l’air (fr)
• 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)
• Sicilian: cû culu di fora, cû culu di 'n chianu, cû culu a l'àriu
• Swedish: bottenlös (sv), byxlös (sv)
• Vietnamese: cởi truồng