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" Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."
Erich Fromm

Meaning of "bottomless" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF BOTTOMLESS

ˈbɒtəmlɪs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOTTOMLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bottomless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BOTTOMLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of bottomless in the English dictionary

The first definition of bottomless in the dictionary is having no bottom. Other definition of bottomless is unlimited; inexhaustible. Bottomless is also very deep.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BOTTOMLESS

aimless · armless · blameless · blossomless · fathomless · formless · frameless · harmless · homeless · kingdomless · nameless · ransomless · rhythmless · seamless · shameless · symptomless · systemless · timeless · venomless · victimless

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOTTOMLESS

bottom feeder · bottom fisher · bottom fishing · bottom gear · bottom house · bottom line · bottom out · bottom-up · bottom-up processing · bottomer · bottoming · bottomland · bottomlessly · bottomlessness · bottommost · bottomness · bottomries · bottomry · bottoms up · bottomset bed

WORDS THAT END LIKE BOTTOMLESS

beamless · bloomless · brimless · charmless · dreamless · filmless · foamless · gloomless · gormless · less · loamless · redeemless · rimless · scumless · seemless · stemless · stormless · sumless · teemless · termless · tramless

Synonyms and antonyms of bottomless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BOTTOMLESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bottomless» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «bottomless» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF BOTTOMLESS

Find out the translation of bottomless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of bottomless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bottomless» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

深不见底
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

sin fondo
570 millions of speakers
en

English

bottomless
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

अथाह
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قعر
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

бездонная
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

sem fundo
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

অতল
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

sans fond
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Tidak bermaya
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

bodenlos
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

底なしの
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Bottomless
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không đáy
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

அடிப்பகுதியில்லாத
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

तळ नसलेला
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

dipsiz
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

senza fondo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

dna
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

бездонна
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

fără fund
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απύθμενο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afgrond
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bottenlös
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bunnløs
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bottomless

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BOTTOMLESS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of bottomless
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «bottomless».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bottomless

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «BOTTOMLESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bottomless.
1
John Arbuthnot
Law is a bottomless pit.
2
Willa Cather
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
3
Otto Dix
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
4
Guy Finley
If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.
5
Erich Fromm
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
6
Alan Huffman
Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.
7
Jessica Lange
Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.
8
Per Petterson
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.
9
John Podhoretz
Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.
10
Sada Thompson
When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOTTOMLESS»

Discover the use of bottomless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bottomless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of ...
The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we must know something about these subjects.
Peter Huber, Mark P. Mills, 2014
2
A Bottomless Grave: And Other Victorian Tales of Terror
Selected from the works of American, British, and French writers, 21 rare and seldom-anthologized stories include "A Bottomless Grave" by Ambrose Bierce, "The Ship that Saw a Ghost" by Frank Norris, Guy de Maupassant's "The Tomb," Richard ...
Hugh Lamb, 2001
3
The Bottomless Pit
This story describes a set of events as told by Paul, the main character, who finds himself lost and confused over a series of events that transpire out of his control over a period of roughly two years.
Jon Gee Ruez, 2010
4
A Laboratory Study of Streambed Stability in Bottomless Culverts
This thesis discusses the experimental methods used to determine incipient motion conditions and analyses of incipient motion prediction methods.
Brian Mark Crookston, 2008
5
The Liberation of John Bottomless Pitt Jr. and How It Came About
In the tourist brochures Scaff old Hill is described as "a small, picturesque village overlooking the Lincolnshire countryside.
J. E. Johannessen, 2011
6
The Bottomless Belly Button
In the aftermath of their forty-years-married parents' shocking divorce announcement, three siblings attend an emotionally turbulent family reunion at a possibly haunted beach house, where eldest son Dennis searches for answers, middle ...
‎2008
7
Journey to the Bottomless Pit: The Story of Stephen Bishop ...
Tells the story of the seventeen-year-old slave whose interest in the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky led him to become the tour guide for many to this natural wonder, helping him escape the grueling work of his fellow slaves on the plantations ...
Elizabeth Mitchell, 2004
8
Subsidies: A Bottomless Bucket
Taking off from a study of three major explicit subsidies - Food, Fertilizer and Petroleum, prepared at the behest of the Twelfth Finance Commission, this book seeks to come to grips with the entire gamut of subsidies-those that are ...
Kattalai Sivasubramanya Ramachandran, 2005
9
Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's ...
Advance Praise for GLASS CEILINGS and BOTTOMLESS PITS "Randy Albelda and Chris Tilly have produced another in a long line of engaging and enlightening texts. Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits provides useful data, pointed ...
Randy Pearl Albelda, Chris Tilly, 1997
10
Bottomless Cocktail: The Art of Shag
An acolyte of Exotica, Tiki Culture, and cartoon illustration, Shag's work first looks retro, but on closer inspection is seen to be a loving exploration of the popular subconscious. This is the softcover edition.
Shag, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOTTOMLESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bottomless is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Wine Dinner at Frasca, New Restaurant at Vail Four Seasons …
UPTOWN — Celebrate the beginning of the week with bottomless mussels and fries every Monday at Humboldt Farm, Fish, & Wine. All day ... «Eater, Jul 15»
2
Palmer police credit K-9 Buddy with helping save life on Fourth of July
... located and transported to the hospital. Police said the area is known as the Lily pond, and according to local legend, it is a bottomless pond. «MassLive.com, Jul 15»
3
Five good spots for bloody marys in Des Moines
Second, Wellman's makes their peppery bloody marys bottomless, meaning for $12 you can drink as many of the scarlet cocktails as you want. «DesMoinesRegister.com, Jul 15»
4
BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Will Gwent welcome the Royal Family?
“And do not forget – it provides employment for a vast number of people – it is not money thrown into a bottomless pit as is sometimes implied. «South Wales Argus, Jul 15»
5
Blue Ribbon Celebrates National Fried Chicken Day With …
... make our way through the Smorgasbird, but Blue Ribbon has a challenge in mind for a more bottomless customer: eat the entire thing in less ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
6
Cassandra's Foreboding Ghost Haunts Greece After the 'No' Vote
He is long dead now, but his legacy is still high in a country where politicians' reputation has reached such bottomless pits that nowadays, ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
7
Bacon Dinner: Johan Rosen's 2015 Season Edit
... but we tried to make it happen as good as we could even though the bottomless pow days could be counted on one hand (maybe two). «Transworld Snowboarding, Jul 15»
8
What's The Most Over-The-Top Tech Job Perk?
Beer pong tables, free massages, bottomless alcohol—even company-paid trips to sex workers. What's the perk to end all perks? In the past ... «Gizmodo, Jul 15»
9
Hungary's new left and the Greek referendum: Today Athens …
The avalanche was triggered by the Olympics, which proved to be a bottomless money pit. Greece's establishment parties and political elites ... «Hungarian Free Press, Jul 15»
10
The EU and Greece: Changing frames and pursuing the Odyssey
We understand the impatience and concern of those partners, who are sick and tired of feeling that they are pouring their aid into a bottomless, shapeles ... «EurActiv, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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