Meanings
comparative more limitless · superlative most limitless
- Without limits in extent, size, or quantity.
After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.
2025 March 18, Samuel Moyn, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Mar 20251 more example
The Penguin can also fairly be described as an HBO gangster drama whose antihero is a brutal but troubled mid-level Mafioso with limitless ambition and debilitating maternal issues.
2024 September 19, Judy Berman, “HBO’s The Penguin Is a Stylish, Dumbed-Down Trump Allegory That Speaks to TV’s Decline”, in TIME, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2024Synonyms: unlimited, boundless, bottomless, boundless, endless, infinite, unbottomed, unbounded · Antonyms: limited, finite
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWithout limits in extent, size, or quantity.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivewithout limits in extent or size or quantity
adjectivehaving no limits in range or scope
adjectiveseemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishlimit
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishlimitless
Translations
Ancient Greek ἀπέραντος
- ἀπέραντος (apérantos)without limits; boundless
Bengali বেহদ্দ
- বেহদ্দ (behoddo)without limits; boundless
Bulgarian безграничен, неограничен
- безграничен (bezgraničen)without limits; boundless
- неограничен (neograničen)without limits; boundless
Catalan il·limitat
- il·limitatwithout limits; boundless
Danish grænseløs, ubegrænset
- grænseløswithout limits; boundless
- ubegrænsetwithout limits; boundless
Dutch grenzeloos, onbegrensd
- grenzelooswithout limits; boundless
- onbegrensdwithout limits; boundless
Esperanto senlima
- senlimawithout limits; boundless
Finnish rajaton
- rajatonwithout limits; boundless
French illimité
- illimitéwithout limits; boundless
German grenzenlos, unbegrenzt
- grenzenloswithout limits; boundless
- unbegrenztwithout limits; boundless
Hindi असीम, अपार
- असीम (asīm)without limits; boundless
- अपार (apār)without limits; boundless
- अमित (amit)without limits; boundless
Italian illimitato
- illimitatowithout limits; boundless
Korean 한(限)없다, 무한(無限)하다
- 한(限)없다 (haneopda)without limits; boundless
- 무한(無限)하다 (muhanhada)without limits; boundless
Polish bezkresny
- bezkresnywithout limits; boundless
Portuguese ilimitado
- ilimitadowithout limits; boundless
Romanian nelimitat
- nelimitatwithout limits; boundless
Russian безграни́чный, беспреде́льный
- безграни́чный (bezgraníčnyj)without limits; boundless
- беспреде́льный (bespredélʹnyj)without limits; boundless
Spanish ilimitado
- ilimitadowithout limits; boundless
Turkish sınırsız, limitsiz
- sınırsızwithout limits; boundless
- limitsizwithout limits; boundless
- hudutsuzwithout limits; boundless
Vietnamese vô bờ
- vô bờwithout limits; boundless
Cite this entry
limitless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limitless
“limitless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limitless. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “limitless,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limitless.
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