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Definition of Measureless
1. Adjective. Without limits in extent or size or quantity. "Limitless vastness of our solar system"
Similar to: Immeasurable, Immensurable, Unmeasurable, Unmeasured
Derivative terms: Limitlessness
Definition of Measureless
1. a. Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable.
Definition of Measureless
1. Adjective. Not measured because it is so large it is difficult or impossible to do so. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Measureless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Measureless
Literary usage of Measureless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law: Or, The by John Austin, Robert Campbell (1875)
"... is necessarily a monstrous chaos : partly consisting of judiciary law, introduced
bit by bit, and imbedded in a measureless heap of particular judicial ..."
2. The Bookman (1903)
""They descended slowly, following the current of this burning river, between
palaces in flames, as though it were a measureless avenue in an accursed city ..."
3. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... the overthrown, the hurt, the opprest of the whole earth, To the rescue the
stalwart giant hurry his I feel the measureless shame and humiliation of my ..."
4. Studies in Theism by Borden Parker Bowne (1879)
"this wondrous dynamic chain binds into living unity the realms of matter and mind
through measureless amplitudes of space and time. ..."
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