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bottomless

Pronunciation: /ˈbɒtəm.ləs/

The English word “bottomless” has 7 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Having no bottom.
  2. Extremely deep.
  3. Having no bounds; limitless.
  4. Of a meal: accompanied by unlimited drinks.
  5. Difficult to understand; unfathomable.
  6. 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.

Etymology

From Middle English botemles, botmeles, equivalent to bottom + -less. Cognate with West Frisian boaiemleas (“bottomless”), Dutch bodemloos (“bottomless”), German Low German boddenloos (“bottomless”), German bodenlos (“bottomless”), Swedish bottenlös (“bottomless”), Icelandic botnlaus (“bottomless”).

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