depthless

English

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Etymology tree
English depth
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English depthless

    From depth + -less.

    Adjective

    depthless (not comparable)

    1. Having no depth, or having a depth that is impossible to determine; immeasurably deep.
      • 2007 October 19, Holland Cotter, “King-Size Stories, Woven for the Ages”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 July 2023:
        The result is not an image of the natural world in a tapestry but a depiction of nature as a tapestry: a splendid, impenetrable, depthless screen of shivering pixels.

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