meas·ure·less

[mezh-er-lis]
adjective
too large or great to be measured; unlimited; immeasurable: a measureless distance; measureless contempt.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English measureles. See measure, -less

meas·ure·less·ly, adverb
meas·ure·less·ness, noun


boundless, unbounded, limitless, vast, infinite.
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measureless (ˈmɛʒəlɪs) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
limitless, vast, or infinite
 
'measurelessly
 
adv
 
'measurelessness
 
n

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Measureless is always a great word to know.
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
Example sentences
The measureless value set by every great artist upon execution.
The soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any
  lessons or deductions but its own.
And yet under the measureless grossness and slag of that book one must find the
  lyric.
Its presence is visible in lives, yet literacy remains an invisible,
  measureless phenomenon.
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