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English
Etymology
From bound + -less.
Adjective
boundless (comparative more boundless, superlative most boundless)
- Without bounds, unbounded.
- 1785, William Cowper, “The Garden”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. By William Cowper To which are Added, by the Same Author, An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and The History of John Gilpin, London: Printed for J Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-Yard, OCLC 221351486; republished as The Task. A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for Thomas Dobson, bookseller, in Second-street, second door above Chestnut-street, 1787, OCLC 23630717, page 87:
- 'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.
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without bounds, unbounded
- Bengali: বেহদ্দ (bn) (behoddo)
- Bulgarian: безграни́чен (bg) (bezgraníčen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 無邊 / 无边 (zh) (wúbiān)
- Danish: grænseløs, ubegrænset
- Dutch: grenzeloos (nl), onbegrensd (nl)
- Esperanto: senlima
- Finnish: rajaton (fi)
- French: illimité (fr)
- German: grenzenlos (de), unbegrenzt (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἄπειρος (ápeiros), ἀπέραντος (apérantos), ἄπλετος (ápletos)
- Hebrew: ללא גבול (le lo gevūl)
- Hindi: अदिति (hi) (aditi)
- Italian: illimitato (it), sconfinato (it)
- Latin: infīnītus
- Plautdietsch: onbeschrenkjt
- Polish: bezgraniczny (pl) m, bezkresny (pl)
- Romanian: nemărginit (ro)
- Russian: безграни́чный (ru) (bezgraníčnyj), беспреде́льный (ru) (bespredélʹnyj), бескра́йний (ru) (beskrájnij), бесконе́чный (ru) (beskonéčnyj)
- Sanskrit: अनन्त (sa) (ananta), अदिति (sa) (aditi)
- Spanish: ilimitado (es), sin límites
- Turkish: sınırsız (tr), sonsuz (tr)
- Ukrainian: безме́жний (uk) (bezméžnyj), безкра́йній (uk) (bezkrájnij), безкра́їй (uk) (bezkrájij)
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