Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Limitless \Lim"it*less\, a.
Having no limits; unbounded; boundless.
--Davies (Wit's
Pilgr.).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from limit (n.) + -less. Related: Limitlessly; limitlessness.\n
Wiktionary
a. Without limits in extent, size, quantity, and/or comprehensive perception; boundless
WordNet
adj. without limits in extent or size or quantity; "immeasurable vastness of our solar system" [syn: illimitable, measureless, unmeasured]
having no limits in range or scope; "to start with a theory of unlimited freedom is to end up with unlimited despotism"- Philip Rahv; "the limitless reaches of outer space" [syn: unlimited] [ant: limited]
seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent; "unbounded enthusiasm"; "children with boundless energy"; "a limitless supply of money" [syn: boundless, unbounded]
Wikipedia
Limitless is one of the world's largest private superyachts. She was built in 1997 by German shipmaker Lürssen, with exterior design by the noted Jon Bannenberg and collaborator Jonathan Quinn Barnett, and interior design by François Catroux. The overall length is 96,25 m (315 ft 8 in), the width 12,50 m (41 ft). She is powered by two engines of 5420 kW each, reaching a speed of , and was the first yacht to feature a combination of diesel and diesel-electric propulsion. Limitless is owned by Les Wexner, an American businessman who is currently chairman and CEO of the L Brands corporation (formerly Limited Brands, and best known for its brand Victoria's Secret).
Limitless is a 2011 American thriller film directed by Neil Burger. Based on the novel The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn, the film stars Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, and Robert De Niro. The events portrayed in the film follow Edward Morra, a struggling writer, who is introduced to a nootropic drug called NZT-48, which gives him the ability to fully utilize his brain and vastly improve his lifestyle.
Limitless was released on March 18, 2011, and became a box office success after grossing over $161 million on a budget of $27 million. A television series of the same name covering events that take place after the film debuted on September 22, 2015.
"Limitless" is a song performed by British record producer Burns, released in the United Kingdom on 10 May 2013 as a digital download on iTunes. The song features English singer Clare Maguire and was written by Maguire and Burns.
Limitless is the first release by metalcore band Crown the Empire.
Limitless is the second full-length album by the Italian modern melodic female fronted metal band Temperance. It was released via Scarlet Records on 31 March 2015.
Limitless is a live album from Planetshakers. Integrity Music released the album on January 13, 2013.
Limitless is the third studio album from Australian rock band Tonight Alive, released on 4 March 2016 through Sony Music Australia in Oceania and Japan, Fearless Records in North America and Easy Life Records in Europe. Production on the album began in March 2015. The album was announced in October 2015, along with the release of the album's first single, "Human Interaction". The band embarked on a world tour with Set It Off in support of the release.
Limitless is an American dramedy television series based on the 2011 film of the same name that originally aired on CBS from September 22, 2015 to April 26, 2016. It stars Jake McDorman as Brian Finch, who discovers the power of a mysterious nootropic drug by the name of NZT-48. This drug unlocks the full potential of the human brain and gives its user enhanced mental faculties. It is a direct sequel to the film of the same name, which in turn was based on the novel The Dark Fields, and takes place four years after the events of the movie. The series was ordered by CBS on May 8, 2015. On October 23, 2015, CBS picked up Limitless for a full season of 22 episodes. On May 18, 2016, CBS confirmed Limitless will not be part of their 2016–2017 lineup, but did not announce its cancellation, saying that they're discussing the future of the series with other networks. On May 25, 2016, Craig Sweeny announced the series has been cancelled after one season.
Usage examples of "limitless".
There came to their great aeronautic parks at Chinsi-fu and Tsingyen by the mono-rails that now laced the whole surface of China a limitless supply of skilled and able workmen, workmen far above the average European in industrial efficiency.
For one thing, there was a subtle, indefinable sense of limitless antiquity and utter alienage which affected one like a view from the brink of a monstrous abyss of unplumbed blackness - but mostly it was the expression of crazed fear on the puckered, prognathous, half-shielded face.
We must have had some such normal notions to fall back upon as our eyes swept that limitless, tempest-scarred plateau and grasped the almost endless labyrinth of colossal, regular, and geometrically eurythmic stone masses which reared their crumbled and pitted crests above a glacial sheet not more than forty or fifty feet deep at its thickest, and in places obviously thinner.
He gives a precise biological description of every imaginable thing there is to eat, then presents an exact analysis of every imaginable method of cooking it and shows how all the glories of cuisine rise out of the limitless intersections of these two forces.
Father, in the watches of the night, come to us as you always came, bringing to us the invincible sustenance of your strength, the limitless treasure of your bounty, the tremendous structure of your life that will shape all lost and broken things on earth again into a golden pattern of exultancy and joy.
And there was sorcery, the Gnosis, and the prospect of near limitless power.
And if you do it, it will be because this crazy, selfdefeating system gives limitless power to egomaniacs and kooks and charlatans like you.
But this -perverse, oblique, its potential elusive but limitless - it resembled Lunaria herself.
The great cloud-barred disk of the sun stood just above a limitless expanse of tossing white-caps--so to speak--a billowy chaos of massy mountain domes and peaks draped in imperishable snow, and flooded with an opaline glory of changing and dissolving splendors, while through rifts in a black cloud-bank above the sun, radiating lances of diamond dust shot to the zenith.
Early in January there arrived in El Toyon a gentleman with a scrubbing brush moustache, a pleasant, portly personality, a pair of twinkling black eyes, a seemingly limitless amount of leisure, discriminating taste for liquors and cigars, a fountain pen and a check book.
If you share the belief that the laws of physics should not be fragmented into those that govern the large and those that govern the small, and if you also believe that we should not rest until we have a theory whose range of applicability is limitless, string theory is the only game in town.
Two things did Mallard learn from Doran himself which were to have a marked influence on his life--a belief that only in landscape can a painter of our time hope to do really great work, and a limitless contempt of the Royal Academy.
It was a time of extreme fragility and suspicion in international relations, and the United States of America had poured limitless squillions of dollars into the ultrasecret Totality Project, which explored arcane and esoteric possibilities for future warfare.
Then there was the air: limitless, breathable air, unchambered, unguarded.
The ship had been rife with increasingly lurid speculations in avid undertones as we had sailed to Carif and I recalled Naldeth had been the source of some of the wilder tales of turbulent adventure and limitless wealth, far removed from the truths of life as a sword for hire, as Aiten had told it to me.