unlimited
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Adjective (3)
- 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”Synonyms: limitlessSimilar untrammeled, oceanic, bottomless
- without reservation or exceptionSynonyms: outrightstraight-outOpposite qualifiedSimilar unqualified
- that cannot be entirely consumed or used up“an inexhaustible supply of coal”Synonyms: inexhaustibleOpposite finiteSimilar infinite
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Adjective limitless or without bounds
- Spanish
- ilimitado
- French
- illimité
- German
- unbeschränkt
- Italian
- illimitato
- Portuguese
- ilimitado
- Turkish
- sınırsız
- Russian
- неограни́ченный neograníčennyj
- Chinese
- 无限 wúxiàn
- Swedish
- obegränsad
- Greek
- απεριόριστος aperióristos
10 more languages
- Hungarian
- végtelen
- Portuguese (PT)
- ilimitado
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 無限 wúxiàn
- Catalan
- il·limitat
- Czech
- neomezený
- Esperanto
- senlima
- Finnish
- rajoittamaton
- Georgian
- უსაზღვრო usazɣvro
- Norwegian
- ubegrenset
- Romanian
- nelimitat
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean.
2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. “Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities.” Richard Hooker
3. Unconfined; not restrained; unrestricted.
Ascribe not unto God such an unlimited exercise of mercy as may destroy his justice.— Rogers
Unlimited problem Mathematics, a problem which is capable of an infinite number of solutions. — Unlimited pump, a kind of deep-well pump placed at the level of the water, and operated from above ground.
— Un·lim′wb-a1′>′it·ed·ly, adverb — Un·lim′wb-a1′>′it·ed·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54