illimitable
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- without limits in extent or size or quantity“limitless vastness of our solar system”“The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown. — Sophocles”Synonyms: limitlessmeasurelessunmeasuredOpposite measurableSimilar immeasurable, unmeasurable
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Il·lim′it·a·ble adjective
Origin: Pref. il- not + limitable: cf. F. illimitable.
Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space.
The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty.— Thomas DeQuincey
Synonyms: Boundless; limitless; unlimited; unbounded; immeasurable; infinite; immense; vast.
— Il·lim′wb-a1′>′it·a·ble·ness, noun — Il·lim′wb-a1′>′it·a·bly, adverb
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54