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English
Etymology
measure + -less
Adjective
measureless (not comparable)
- Not measured because it is so large that it is difficult or impossible to do so.
- Synonyms: boundless, limitless, vast
1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: John Murray, , by William Bulmer and Co. , published 1816, →OCLC, page 55:In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
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