Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Measureless \Meas"ure*less\, a. Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n.
Where Alf, the sacred river ran,
Through canyons measureless to man,
Down to a hidden sea.
--Coleridge.
Syn: Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable.
Wiktionary
a. Not measured because it is so large it is difficult or impossible to do so.
WordNet
adj. without limits in extent or size or quantity; "immeasurable vastness of our solar system" [syn: illimitable, limitless, unmeasured]
Usage examples of "measureless".
Far above that clay bound, struggling soul, and far above those measureless, firmamental masses, is God, the Maker of them both, and the Lover of his child.
The island itself was exposed to the threat of invasion from the Italian ports, as well as to constant and measureless air attack.
How willingly would I have exchanged a full-scale attempt at invasion for this shapeless, measureless peril, expressed in charts, curves, and statistics!
He was foolish to cast away such almost measureless opportunities and irreplaceable forces in a mortal struggle, often hand-to-hand, with the warriors of the British Empire.
Always there loomed the fear of united action by the British Empire and the United States, with its combination of the two strongest navies afloat and with resources, which once developed were measureless and incomparable.
I hoped in 1942, or even if it had never been tried, the attempt to cross the Channel in 1943 would have led to a bloody defeat of the first magnitude, with measureless reactions upon the result of the war.
I am so glad I found the right word for one who, by his inspiring songs and valiant life, has rendered measureless service to the Scottish race and to the British Empire.
We must therefore take the Unity as infinite not in measureless extension or numerable quantity but in fathomless depths of power.
It is a First Principle, measureless, not bounded within determined size--such measurement belongs to another order--and therefore it is all-power, nowhere under limit.
The demon lovers too must prepare for just such a measureless winter sleep, that gives no hunger, asks no action.
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Steam billowed as the sea was rent by sudden gouts of flame, leaving behind a measureless, bottomless hole.
Gulf of Mexico, tall ships wearing high-top wings of white sailcloth had to ride the tidal flow through a measureless, reedy delta in order to reach it.