BOTTOMLESS


Meaning of BOTTOMLESS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ bɒtəmləs ]

1.

If you describe a supply of something as bottomless , you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.

Princess Anne does not have a bottomless purse.

ADJ

2.

If you describe something as bottomless , you mean that it is so deep that it seems to have no bottom.

His eyes were like bottomless brown pools.

ADJ

3.

If you describe something as a bottomless pit , you mean that it seems as if you can take things from it and it will never be empty or put things in it and it will never be full.

A gold mine is not a bottomless pit, the gold runs out...

The problem is we don’t have a bottomless pit of resources...

PHRASE

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