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Definition of Depthless
1. a. Having no depth; shallow.
Definition of Depthless
1. Adjective. Having no depth, or having a depth that is impossible to determine ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Depthless
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Depthless
1. 1. Having no depth; shallow. 2. Of measureless depth; unfathomable. "In clouds of depthless night." (Francis) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depthless
Literary usage of Depthless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beside the Western Sea: A Collection of Poems by Harriet M. Skidmore (1877)
"She vowed beneath her*haughty hand To crush the Christian's hated band, And in
a depthless gulf of shame To fling, ere long, ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"Yet in this book, as in all that he wrote, there is that depthless melancholy
which is more characteristic of Carlyle ..."
3. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"... the depthless and entrancing sadness, as of inexorable fate, that murmurs,
like the autumn wind through the forest, in the melancholy cadences of this ..."
4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"1. profound (very deep); spec. depthless, bottomless, abysmal. Antonyms: see
SHALLOW, SURFACE. 8. See ABSTRUSE, DISCERNING, SUBTLE. t. ..."
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