ILLIMITABLE

illimitable, limitless, measureless, unmeasured

(adjective) 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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

illimitable (comparative more illimitable, superlative most illimitable)

Impervious to limitation, without limit.

Synonyms: infinite, limitless, unlimited

Antonyms: limitable, limited

Source: Wiktionary


Il*lim"it*a*ble, a. Etym: [Pref. il- not + limitable: cf. F. illimitable.]

Definition: 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. De Quincey.

Syn.

– Boundless; limitless; unlimited; unbounded; immeasurable; infinite; immense; vast.

– Il*lim"it*a*ble*ness, n.

– Il*lim"it*a*bly, adv.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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