UNBOUNDED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does unbounded mean? 

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

1. seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNBOUNDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent

Synonyms:

boundless; limitless; unbounded

Context example:

a limitless supply of money

Similar:

infinite (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude)

Derivation:

unboundedness (the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit)

 Context examples 

This sentiment gave unbounded satisfaction—greater satisfaction, I think, than anything that had passed yet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On every point of general literature he displays unbounded knowledge and a quick and piercing apprehension.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The surprise of your refusal, Fanny, seems to have been unbounded.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Hans Nelson was stolid and easy-going, while Edith had long before won his unbounded admiration by her capacity for getting on with people.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

No;—not less when I knew you to be unhappy, than when I had believed you at ease, did I turn away from every exertion of duty or friendship; scarcely allowing sorrow to exist but with me, regretting only THAT heart which had deserted and wronged me, and leaving you, for whom I professed an unbounded affection, to be miserable for my sake.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But I was in reality very ill, and surely nothing but the unbounded and unremitting attentions of my friend could have restored me to life.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I took infinitely greater pains to cheer him up again than I had taken to depress him; and I soon understood (as I ought to have known at first) that he had been so confident, merely because of his faith in the wisest and most wonderful of women, and his unbounded reliance on my intellectual resources.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Upon this occasion my father said, with an expression of unbounded wonder, “My dearest Victor, what infatuation is this? My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an assertion again.”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

And when the time comes—may it come soon, if it be His merciful pleasure!—when my death shall release her from constraint, I shall close my eyes upon her honoured face, with unbounded confidence and love; and leave her, with no sorrow then, to happier and brighter days.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Ham staggered, as well he might, under the blow Mr. Peggotty dealt him in his unbounded joy, as a mark of confidence and friendship; but feeling called upon to say something to us, he said, with much faltering and great difficulty: She warn't no higher than you was, Mas'r Davy—when you first come—when I thought what she'd grow up to be.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)