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lim·it·less

 (lĭm′ĭt-lĭs)
adj.
Having no limit or limits; unrestricted: limitless authority; the limitless reaches of outer space.

lim′it·less·ly adv.
lim′it·less·ness n.
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lim•it•less

(ˈlɪm ɪt lɪs)

adj.
without limit; boundless: limitless ambition.
[1575–85]
lim′it•less•ly, adv.
lim′it•less•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.limitless - without limits in extent or size or quantity; "limitless vastness of our solar system"
immeasurable, immensurable, unmeasurable, unmeasured - impossible to measure; "unmeasurable reaches of outer space"
2.limitless - having no limits in range or scopelimitless - having no limits in range or scope; "to start with a theory of unlimited freedom is to end up with unlimited despotism"- Philip Rahv; "the limitless reaches of outer space"
3.limitless - seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extentlimitless - seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent; "unbounded enthusiasm"; "children with boundless energy"; "a limitless supply of money"
infinite - having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude; "the infinite ingenuity of man"; "infinite wealth"
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limitless

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limitless

adjective
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Translations
لا حدَّ لهُ
neomezený
grænseløsubegrænset
korlátlan
takmarkalaus
sınırsız

limitless

[ˈlɪmɪtlɪs] ADJilimitado, sin límites
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limitless

[ˈlɪmɪtləs] adjsans limite, illimité(e)
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limitless

adjgrenzenlos
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limitless

[ˈlɪmɪtlɪs] adjillimitato/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

limit

(ˈlimit) noun
1. the farthest point or place; the boundary. There was no limit to his ambition.
2. a restriction. We must put a limit on our spending.
verb
to set a restriction on. We must limit the amount of time we spend on this work.
ˌlimiˈtation noun
1. an act of limiting.
2. a lack, eg of a particular facility, ability etc. We all have our limitations.
ˈlimited adjective
1. (negative unlimited) not very great, large etc; restricted. My experience is rather limited.
2. (with capital, abbreviated to Ltd. when written) a word used in the titles of certain companies. West. and R. Chambers Ltd.
ˈlimitless adjective
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References in classic literature ?
And farther still, beyond those forests and fields, the bright, oscillating, limitless distance lured one to itself.
Now out of an immense, a limitless distance, came a something which grew and grew, and approached, and presently was recognizable as a sound-- it had rather seemed to be a feeling, before.
The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod -- and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.
The travellers had now only to descend to the Atlantic by limitless plains, levelled by nature.
The eyes for which Tess's letter was intended were gazing at this time on a limitless expanse of country from the back of a mule which was bearing him from the interior of the South-American Continent towards the coast.
In this inflamed atmosphere the heat appeared to vibrate as it does above a blazing hearth, while the mind grew desperate in contemplating the limitless calm, and could see no reason why the thing should ever end, since immensity is a species of eternity.
Then thirteen hundred miles of desert solitudes; of limitless panoramas of bewildering perspective; of mimic cities, of pinnacled cathedrals, of massive fortresses, counterfeited in the eternal rocks and splendid with the crimson and gold of the setting sun; of dizzy altitudes among fog-wreathed peaks and never-melting snows, where thunders and lightnings and tempests warred magnificently at our feet and the storm clouds above swung their shredded banners in our very faces!
As Dian ceased speaking she let her eyes range across the limitless expanse of billowing waters.
The darkness about him seemed limitless. The sound of the wind blowing in trees was terrifying.
The king's spirits rose, his joy was limitless. He said that if nothing occurred to mar the prospect we should have a beautiful night, for on this line of tactics we could hold the tree against the whole country-side.
The strength of the parents seemed to be limitless, for one of them, having some difficulty in reaching a bunch of foliage which grew upon a considerable-sized tree, put his fore-legs round the trunk and tore it down as if it had been a sapling.
There is only so much water, so much earth, so much air; but the life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift.