Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bottomless pit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

Syllables: bot-tom-less pit
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.

noun

noun

An endless resource or supply.

noun

A person with an apparently boundless appetite; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources.

noun

An in-game hazard made up of a deep hole or void with no visible bottom, falling into which typically costs the player a life.

Example Sentences

"1769, The Bible, King James Version, Oxford Standard Text, Revelation, 9:11, And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon."
"Lipsius was replaced at Leyden by Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), the French Protestant scholar who was known to contemporaries as "the bottomless pit of erudition.""
"2006: The Club For Growth: Bottomless Pit (blog entry), Phillip Rodokanakis In other words, we will continue throwing good money after bad, trying to feed a bottomless pit's insatiable appetite for taxpayer dollars."

Etymology

From Revelation 9:1–12.

Inflected Forms

bottomless pits (plural)

Synonyms

abyss black hole death pit

Questions

What does bottomless pit mean?: A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.
Where does bottomless pit come from?: From Revelation 9:1–12.

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