shoreless

[ shawr-lis, shohr- ]

adjective

1. limitless; boundless.
2. without a shore or beach suitable for landing:

   a shoreless island.

shoreless

/ ˈʃɔːlɪs /

adjective

1. without a shore suitable for landing
2. poetic.
   boundless; vast

   the shoreless wastes

Word History and Origins

Origin of shoreless¹

First recorded in 1620–30; shore ¹ + -less

Example Sentences

The gyre of currents that bounds this shoreless sea entraps vast amounts of plastic waste, and fish stocks are declining in the now-busy shipping route.

From Nature

It was the sound of water that Merry heard falling into his quiet sleep: water streaming down gently, and then spreading, spreading irresistibly all round the house into a dark shoreless pool.

From Literature

“Hence, to the right-minded mariner, and to him who studies the physical relations of earth, sea, and air, the atmosphere is something more than a shoreless ocean, at the bottom of which he creeps along…. It is an inexhaustible magazine, marvellously adapted for many benign and beneficent purposes. “Upon the proper working of this machine depends the well being of every plant and animal that inhabits the earth; therefore the management of it, its movements, and the performance of its offices, cannot be left to chance.”

From New York Times

The desire of infinite peace was the impulse, I think, which drove on the realists to that "abyss of pantheism," from the brink of which the vision of most men recoils as from the horror of shoreless vacuity.

From Project Gutenberg

A shoreless sea of heavenly beams Around his sacred person gleams; By merit raised, by virtue tried, Exalted at his Father's side.

From Project Gutenberg