# bottomless

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈbɒtəm.ləs/ · frequency rank #30,342

## Definitions
1. Having no bottom.
2. Extremely deep.
3. Having no bounds; limitless.
4. Of a meal: accompanied by unlimited drinks.
5. Difficult to understand; unfathomable.
6. refillable (usually for iced tea or other such cold beverages)
7. Not wearing clothes below the waist; particularly not wearing clothes that would cover the genitalia.

## Etymology
From Middle English botemles, botmeles, equivalent to bottom + -less.
Cognate with West Frisian boaiemleas (“bottomless”), Dutch bodemloos (“bottomless”), German Low German boddenloos (“bottomless”), German bodenlos (“bottomless”), Swedish bottenlös (“bottomless”), Icelandic botnlaus (“bottomless”).

## Common misspellings (12)
`bbottomless`, `botomless`, `bototmless`, `bottmoless`, `bottolmess`, `bottomelss`, `bottomles`, `bottomlless`, `bottomlses`, `bottommless`, `btotomless`, `obttomless`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bottomless
