as in infinite
being or seeming to be without limits
the illimitable expanse of the universe
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Recent Examples of illimitable
Finally, the wheel has also turned for the Wise and Sophisticated Europeans, whose governments were once portrayed as having vanquished the pandemic with science, while Trump's America was a failed state where the coronavirus held illimitable dominion over all.
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Ross Douthat New York Times, Star Tribune, 1 Mar. 2021
But tracking down remnants of the UMG disaster has been a lesson in the limits of standard historical narratives and a reminder of music’s illimitable plenteousness.
—New York Times, 11 June 2019
Given this virtually illimitable complexity, go is, much more than chess, about recognizing patterns that arise when clutches of stones surround empty spaces.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2016
Ross Douthat New York Times, Star Tribune, 1 Mar. 2021
But tracking down remnants of the UMG disaster has been a lesson in the limits of standard historical narratives and a reminder of music’s illimitable plenteousness.
—New York Times, 11 June 2019
Given this virtually illimitable complexity, go is, much more than chess, about recognizing patterns that arise when clutches of stones surround empty spaces.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for illimitable
Adjective
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Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez are seemingly unstoppable, and their building has a seemingly infinite number of murders in this Hulu mystery comedy.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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If the original function has a sharp edge, like the square wave below (which is often found in digital signals), the Fourier transform will produce an infinite set of frequencies that, when added together, approximate the edge as closely as possible.—
Shalma Wegsman,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Sep. 2025
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For millions of Americans, watching the weather forecast these days feels like an endless loop of desperate doomscrolling.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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There is endless information from doctors and fellow parents out there about the right swaddles, sleep training methods, even room temperature and light levels.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Illimitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illimitable. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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