UNLIMITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unlimited mean? 

• UNLIMITED (adjective)
  The adjective UNLIMITED has 3 senses:

1. having no limits in range or scope

2. without reservation or exception

3. that cannot be entirely consumed or used up

  Familiarity information: UNLIMITED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNLIMITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having no limits in range or scope

Synonyms:

limitless; unlimited

Context example:

the limitless reaches of outer space

Similar:

bottomless (having no apparent limits or bounds)

oceanic (resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree)

untrammeled; untrammelled (not confined or limited)

Antonym:

limited (small in range or scope)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without reservation or exception

Synonyms:

outright; straight-out; unlimited

Similar:

unqualified (not limited or restricted)

Sense 3

Meaning:

That cannot be entirely consumed or used up

Synonyms:

inexhaustible; unlimited

Context example:

an inexhaustible supply of coal

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Hydrogen which is produced when the water is split could potentially be a green and unlimited source of renewable energy.

(Scientists pioneer a new way to turn sunlight into fuel, University of Cambridge)

The team found that mice that had their diet restricted by 50% for a week before the surgery showed less liver damage than mice provided with unlimited food.

(Pathways Underlying the Benefits of Calorie Restriction, NIH)

They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Reason, and not feeling, is my guide; my ambition is unlimited: my desire to rise higher, to do more than others, insatiable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Malignant hematopoietic cell originating in the clonal proliferation of myeloid or lymphoid precursor that undergoes an aberrant and poorly regulated process of organogenesis resulted in arrested maturation and cell capacity for unlimited self-renewal.

(Leukemic Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

The company sells fully transferable stock, but all shareholders have unlimited liability.

(Joint Stock Company, NCI Thesaurus)

In the pump-room, one so newly arrived in Bath must be met with, and that building she had already found so favourable for the discovery of female excellence, and the completion of female intimacy, so admirably adapted for secret discourses and unlimited confidence, that she was most reasonably encouraged to expect another friend from within its walls.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

When Amy had whetted her tongue and freed her mind she usually got the best of it, for she seldom failed to have common sense on her side, while Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such an unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Though harrowing to myself to mention, the alienation of Mr. Micawber (formerly so domesticated) from his wife and family, is the cause of my addressing my unhappy appeal to Mr. Traddles, and soliciting his best indulgence. Mr. T. can form no adequate idea of the change in Mr. Micawber's conduct, of his wildness, of his violence. It has gradually augmented, until it assumes the appearance of aberration of intellect. Scarcely a day passes, I assure Mr. Traddles, on which some paroxysm does not take place. Mr. T. will not require me to depict my feelings, when I inform him that I have become accustomed to hear Mr. Micawber assert that he has sold himself to the D. Mystery and secrecy have long been his principal characteristic, have long replaced unlimited confidence. The slightest provocation, even being asked if there is anything he would prefer for dinner, causes him to express a wish for a separation. Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy “lemon-stunners”—a local sweetmeat—he presented an oyster-knife at the twins!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The few who continued well were allowed almost unlimited license; because the medical attendant insisted on the necessity of frequent exercise to keep them in health: and had it been otherwise, no one had leisure to watch or restrain them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)