illimitable
illimitable — 形容詞
- illimitablepositive
- more illimitablecomparative
- most illimitablesuperlative
1. so great or so wide that it has no end and cannot be measured.
無限；無邊
大到沒有盡頭、無法衡量的
so great or so wide that it has no end and cannot be measured.
Chidi stared at the night sky and felt its distances were illimitable.
Chidi 凝視著夜空，覺得夜空的遼闊是無限的。
predicative use: felt X was illimitable
Anjali walked for hours across illimitable wheat fields that seemed to reach the sky.
Anjali 走了好幾個小時，穿過無邊的麥田，麥田彷彿一直延伸到天際。
collocation: illimitable + plural noun (fields, forests)
Olivia's young son had illimitable energy, and he ran around the park all day.
Olivia 年幼的兒子有著無限的精力，整天都在公園裡跑來跑去。
Sirin looked out at the ocean, an illimitable blue space with no land in sight.
Sirin 望向大海，那是一片無邊的藍色空間，看不到任何陸地。
Stefan, a young teacher, told his class that their imagination was illimitable.
年輕的老師 Stefan 告訴全班同學，他們的想像力是無限的。
be + illimitable after a that-clause subject
- illimitable forests
- illimitable possibilities
- limitless
same meaning; the more usual word in everyday English
- measureless
stresses that something is too big to measure
用法筆記
Appears before a noun (illimitable forests) and after a linking verb such as appear (possibilities appear illimitable); the source examples show no other pattern.