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Illimitable vs Unlimitable - What's the difference?

illimitable | unlimitable |

As adjectives the difference between illimitable and unlimitable

is that illimitable is impervious to limitation, without limit while unlimitable is that cannot be limited; illimitable.

illimitable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Impervious to limitation, without limit.
  • * 1909 , Jack London,
  • What a tremendous affair it was, the world of Homer, with its indeterminate boundaries, vast regions, and immeasurable distances. The Mediterranean and the Euxine were illimitable stretches of ocean waste over which years could be spent in endless wandering.
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  • Synonyms

    * infinite * limitless * unlimited

    Antonyms

    * limitable

    Derived terms

    * illimitability * illimitably

    See also

    * inimitable

    unlimitable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That cannot be limited; illimitable.
  • *1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.7:
  • *:In Morality, Rhetorick, Law and History, there is I confess a frequent and allowable use of testimony; and yet herein I perceive, it is not unlimitable , but admitteth many restrictions.