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/ɪlˈɪmɪtəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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without limits in extent or size or quantity
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.
limitless vastness of our solar system
How To Use illimitable In A Sentence
- It commands a view of mingled woodland and rolling plain, diversified by river and lake, extending to a horizon so faint and far away as to suggest the idea of illimitable space. Charlie to the Rescue
- The Fourth Book (Third of _Pantagruel_) starts the voyage, and begins to lead the commentator who insists on fixing and interpreting the innumerable real or apparent double, treble, and almost centuple meanings, into a series of dances almost illimitable. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
- Already an aasvogel was hovering above; a mere speck, the great bird poised upon widespread wings, high up in the illimitable blue. The Dop Doctor
- Exterminable seems to be used here in the sense of 'illimitable' (N. E. The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3
- Flute tamber is gentle and transparent, someone said illimitable sky would be imagined when listening flute.
- The word "veldt" is Dutch, and the word "illimitable" is Double Dutch. A Miscellany of Men
- He saw one of those early spring days of illimitable blue highness and white, woofy clouds, which stand stationary where the earth meets the sky; the brightness of the sun makes the roads seem whiter and the grass greener, bringing out new tints and colours in everything it touches. Maurice Guest
- In the second place, the weight of tradition both before and after Boethius strongly favors interpreting illimitable life as involving infinite duration, beginningless as well as endless.
- These contributions were multiple: gold which raised the level of Spanish life, new agricultural products which brought health and pleasure, and a spacious new territory opened to all men like an illimitable promise.
- I have an illimitable ability to do anything other than the work at hand.