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.
   • 1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Routes”, in Railway Magazine, page 128:

     The vast swamps of Southern Ontario proved a grim nightmare to the construction gangs. Treacherous and seemingly bottomless, the swamps swallowed thousands of tons of timber and debris, yet still afforded no firm surface on which the track could be laid.

   • 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