MEASURELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does measureless mean? 

• MEASURELESS (adjective)
  The adjective MEASURELESS has 1 sense:

1. without limits in extent or size or quantity

  Familiarity information: MEASURELESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEASURELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without limits in extent or size or quantity

Synonyms:

illimitable; limitless; measureless; unmeasured

Context example:

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.

Similar:

immeasurable; immensurable; unmeasurable (impossible to measure)

 Context examples 

It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent thundering through space.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I lingered at the gates; I lingered on the lawn; I paced backwards and forwards on the pavement; the shutters of the glass door were closed; I could not see into the interior; and both my eyes and spirit seemed drawn from the gloomy house—from the grey-hollow filled with rayless cells, as it appeared to me—to that sky expanded before me,—a blue sea absolved from taint of cloud; the moon ascending it in solemn march; her orb seeming to look up as she left the hill-tops, from behind which she had come, far and farther below her, and aspired to the zenith, midnight dark in its fathomless depth and measureless distance; and for those trembling stars that followed her course; they made my heart tremble, my veins glow when I viewed them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)