What's the difference between bottomless and limitless?

Bottomless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as Smallwood points out, efficiency savings are not a bottomless pit.
  • (2) But at the centre of it all, Pistorius remained utterly isolated, plunged into a seemingly bottomless pit of despair.
  • (3) With bottomless cynicism, Cameron relies on public ignorance on tax.
  • (4) When we were little, she was always tempting us with sugary treats: a bottomless Smarties bin and her legendary coke floats – a lump of vanilla ice-cream fizzing in a glass of cold cola.
  • (5) It’s because his is a spirit of fear and emptiness, that seeks only to fill his bottomless insecurity with worldly affirmations and idols, instead of humbling himself before the only One who can make him whole.
  • (6) Full disclosure (ahem): Vrulja Cove is also a haven for toplessness, and sometimes bottomlessness.
  • (7) Expired gas was collected by a bottomless metabolism chamber while the rats were on the treadmill for 120 min.
  • (8) As journalist Peter Maass noted , “The agency can take companies to court, but its overworked lawyers don’t really have the time to go the distance against the bottomless legal staff in Silicon Valley.” Maass concluded that the agency was low-tech, toothless – and defensive about work like his.
  • (9) There’s nothing good that comes out of the death of someone you love, but I have learned this: the magnitude and bottomlessness of the pain you feel is a testament to the love you shared.
  • (10) It is also a further indication that, given the £5.1bn they shelled out between them on Premier League football, neither Sky nor BT have a bottomless pit of funds .
  • (11) The pancakes came accompanied by "whipped butter" and a mysterious "maple-style" syrup and "bottomless" coffee, which the waitress flung into my cup from a glass pot with a practised jolt of her shoulder.
  • (12) Lord Smith said "difficult choices" would have to be made over what to protect because "there is no bottomless purse" to pay for defences.
  • (13) On Monday morning, before the demonstration, Philippe Martinez, secretary general of the powerful CGT union, told RTL radio: “For several years now, successive heads of Air France have suggested rescue plans … each time, it’s a bottomless pit with the same suggestions.
  • (14) 2) A duet makes fiscal sense during these tough times Because when you've got a bottomless bucket of talent and a finite amount of time (not finite enough, some may argue) you have to duet right (Geddit?
  • (15) But there’s nothing more for the NHS, which is not a “bottomless pit”: it just needs the scale of funds per capita of an ageing population that it had 10 years ago.
  • (16) But even with expensive lawyers and bottomless pockets, this was a clear case of users’ rights – so we felt it was the right time to stand up and draw a line in the sand.
  • (17) "Ministers have a responsibility to retain a high degree of budget control, not least because the LCF is not a bottomless pit of money, it is paid for through the energy bills of households and businesses and as such excessive deployment of subsidised projects could and would lead to higher bills for the public."
  • (18) Michael Hewson of CMC Markets said Monte dei Paschi seemed like a bottomless pit: “With the Italian economy continuing to contract, and 18% of the bank’s loans being problematic, it is hard to envisage a scenario where the bank won’t end up like Oliver and coming back and asking for more.” By contrast, Germany’s Commerzbank gained 9% and Austria’s Raiffeisen was up 7.3%, after passing the tests.
  • (19) Arnett may say he’s looking to get more serious, and I hope he does, but BoJack proves, happily, his reluctance to kill that old creepy Arnett I love so much, and for that I’m bottomlessly glad.
  • (20) She writes: With its European partners reluctant to ‘throw money into a bottomless pit’ Samaras’ insistence that Greece requires no more money is supposed to reassure.

Limitless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no limits; unbounded; boundless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More pertinent is how this became such a pressing matter of government concern – the conversation around early years is becoming increasingly prescriptive, with specific reference to the neuroscience of the infant brain: Aric Sigman came out this week with a paper in which he drew an express link between going to nursery, having raised levels of cortisol (the stress hormone), and this leading to almost limitless problems in later life.
  • (2) "Radio must battle in a world of fully mobile audio delivering limitless choice.
  • (3) Talking this week to several, I heard the same story of exorbitant fees and shocking interest rates throttling real production, while Adair Turner's "socially useless" financial products attract limitless bubble credit.
  • (4) All of your data – from your personal and professional life – is accessible through all of your various devices, as it's stored in the cloud, a remote digital-storage system with near limitless capacity.
  • (5) By the mid-1950s, a frenzy of change was sweeping the world in a wave of postwar modernism … By the 1960s the industrialised countries were well on the way to creating what many imagined would be a limitless Age of Convenience.
  • (6) It’s an eerie setting in many ways, a limitless vista of futuristic visions and broken dreams, of soaring ambition and once-modern flying machines brought sadly back down to earth.
  • (7) Obligatory series based on a movie : Limitless , Rush Hour .
  • (8) They suggest that instead of a blank cheque to require the collection of limitless categories of communications data, each specific type, such as internet protocol addresses or weblog histories, should require specific parliamentary approval.
  • (9) Yet his apparently limitless energy has kept spirits up during an exhausting shoot.
  • (10) While Everton would hardly have deserved an interval lead, it was a reminder of how wasteful City were being with almost limitless possession.
  • (11) I was adopted at the age of just four months – given the stability, security and love which allowed me to enjoy limitless opportunities.
  • (12) Sometimes we can make £400 in a day.” Mehari does it because he loves to travel – since he came to the UK from Eritrea, escaping the national service there which is, in effect, limitless servitude to the government with pocket money, he’s been everywhere.
  • (13) "Money was virtually free – in the case of Japan, where it had zero interest rates, it was literally free – and it was available in limitless quantities, which does not correspond to any definition of normalcy, so that created a bubble and bubbles burst."
  • (14) In his own flat, glossy, beautifully empty way, then, Gary Hume is very much a painter of everyday life in all its rich and limitless strangeness.
  • (15) But after a rush of attention this week, some much deserved focus is back on the surveillance state's other seemingly limitless program: the warrantless searches made possible by Section 702 of the Fisa Amendments Act, which allows the NSA to do all sorts of spying on Americans and people around the world – all for reasons that, in most cases, have nothing to do with terrorism.
  • (16) The second was the lobbying campaign in which all bidders took advantage of grey areas in the shabbily defined rules surrounding the dual race for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments to offer to build training academies, arrange or host lucrative friendlies and do everything in their power and budget (limitless, in Qatar's case) to win votes.
  • (17) Second, Egypt, blessed with fertile land, regular irrigation water and limitless sun, was a net exporter of food and textiles before British colonialists shifted crop production towards cotton to feed the mills driving their industrial revolution, and by 1914 cotton accounted for 92% of the total value of Egyptian exports.
  • (18) As editor-in-chief of Zillow , a mobile and online real estate marketplace whose foundation was built on Zestimate home values, I've long understood that the web is where it's all happening for networking and a kind of limitless democratization of all kinds of mediums and industries.
  • (19) Sometime, somewhere in the limitless future it will be listened to, and, if there is intelligent life in another galaxy and creatures from outer space do land on earth having learned English from BBC broadcasts, the chances are they will not say 'Take me to your leader' but 'How bona to vada your dolly old eek!'"
  • (20) Grabbing a cab in the capital is an exercise that demands virtually limitless supplies of time, patience and luck.