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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unbounded
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
boundless/unbounded enthusiasmformal (= very great)
▪ I’d like to thank the design team for their boundless enthusiasm.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unbounded curiosity
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As such a singularity is approached, some physical quantities diverge and all observers feel unbounded tidal forces.
▪ But though the extent of what was thus known was very great it was not felt to be unbounded.
▪ In the flattering afterglow of Messines, Haig's confidence was unbounded.
▪ My affection for him was unbounded, and I only wished I could find the words to let him know.
▪ They paint a picture of unbounded horror and suffering.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unbounded

Unbounded \Un*bound"ed\, a. Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition.
--Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unbounded

1590s, "not limited in extent," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of bound (v.1). Sense of "generous, profuse, liberal" is recorded from 1704. Related: Unboundedness.

Wiktionary
unbounded

a. having no boundaries or limits

WordNet
unbounded

adj. seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent; "unbounded enthusiasm"; "children with boundless energy"; "a limitless supply of money" [syn: boundless, limitless]

Usage examples of "unbounded".

Every tide might float down the Elbe whole fleets of canoes, filled with hardy and intrepid associates, who aspired to behold the unbounded prospect of the ocean, and to taste the wealth and luxury of unknown worlds.

In the use of victory, especially after they were no longer controlled by the commissioners of the senate, they exercised the most unbounded despotism.

His nobles had never forgiven him for overthrowing their unbounded power, in 1772, and the war against Russia, which he began without the assent of the states, was the signal for revolt.

He was drawn along with her passion and as her vaginal muscles clamped and tugged on his manhood, he began reaming her with unbounded ardour.

With such a minister, and such a parliament, let us suppose a case which I hope will never happen: a prince upon the throne, uninformed, ignorant, and unacquainted with the inclinations and true interest of his people, weak, capricious, transported with unbounded ambition, and possessed with insatiable warice.

Out of eyes overflowing with anguished innocence, fear and terror and uncomprehending madness spilled forth in profusion unbounded.

Throughout the unbounded global spaces, to the depths of the biopolitical world, and confronting an unforeseeable temporality-these are the determinations on which the new supranational right must be defined.

As he notes, the Greek word for infinity is apeiron, meaning unbounded, but also undefined, indefinite.

Shouts and cries echoed through the darkness, and shadowy clots of revelers filed along the unbounded edges of their firelight.

Mr Macturk is well remembered in Dumfriesshire as a person of remarkable shrewdness and unbounded generosity.

When tired of watching these he would wander into the camp of the native regiments, and chat with the men, whose astonishment at finding a young Englishman able to converse in their language, for the Fanti and Ashanti dialects differ but little, was unbounded.

The rescued man, a Genevese of some education who had most recently traveled to these northern latitudes through the Americas, was soon persuaded to tell his ghoulish tale of reckless creation, unbounded pride, unbearable despair, frustrated revenge, and unfinished business.

The grave simplicity of the philosopher was ill calculated to engage her wanton levity, or to fix that unbounded passion for variety, which often discovered personal merit in the meanest of mankind.

Heart of darkness the deathly pallor of Brussels that Marlow finds on his return from the Belgian Congo, but with respect to the monstrous, unbounded overabundance of life in the colony, the sterile environment of Europe seems comforting.

The best features of the institution were its unbounded freedom, the close democratic companionship of the students, the affectionate attachments formed, and the tremendous interest we took in the meetings of the Philomathean society for debates, and the reading of essays and poetry, exhibited also in a lesser degree in the Saturday declamations and compositions.