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illimitable

[ UK /ɪlˈɪmɪtəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
  • Star Trek didn't just offer the illimitable joys of William Shatner tumbling out of his chair every time the camera shook, or yet another sermon from the pen of Gene Roddenberry about how organized religion is a childish superstition.
  • And when the silent darkness enveloped all this beauty, and grandeur, and magnificence in undistinguishable gloom, my mind experienced that wonderful sense of freedom and relief which come from all that suggests the idea of boundlessness -- the deep sky, the dark night, the endless circle, the illimitable waters. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
  • ‘This institution,’ he wrote, ‘will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind.’
  • If war is analysed as a phenomenon in isolation, a logic of illimitable force might indeed seem to be suggested.
  • The occupation is often full of interest; and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.
  • Several large compartments were devoted to the machinery which automatically serviced the vessel -- refrigerators, heaters, generators and purifiers for water and air, and the numberless other mechanisms which would make the cruiser a comfortable and secure home, as well as an invincible battleship, in the heatless, lightless, airless, matterless waste of illimitable, inter-galactic space. Skylark Three
  • The Mediterranean and the Euxine were illimitable stretches of ocean waste over which years could be spent in endless wandering. The Shrinkage of the Planet
  • In this sense, the Web preserves the main value of the fairy tale, that is, its illimitable capacity of homemaking.
  • With no one to keep the burning braziers lit, these, too, burn out soon after, and the entire palace grows dark, cold, and empty of any movement except for the Red Death that ‘held illimitable dominion over all.’
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