different between shoreless vs horseless

English

Etymology

shore +? -less

Adjective

shoreless (not comparable)

1. Without a shore, or with no shore in sight; boundless.
   • 1803, Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature, London: J. Johnson, Canto I, lines 295-6, [1]

     Organic Life beneath the shoreless waves / Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves;

   • 1916, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter 3, [2]

     Our earthly fire again, no matter how fierce or widespread it may be, is always of a limited extent; but the lake of fire in hell is boundless, shoreless and bottomless.

   • 1932, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight (1931), translated by Stuart Gilbert, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1942, p. 83,

     A shoreless night, the pilot thought, leading to no anchorage (for every port was unattainable, it seemed), nor toward dawn.

Anagrams

• horseless

English

Etymology

horse +? -less

Adjective

horseless (not comparable)

1. Not having a horse.

Derived terms

• horseless carriage

Anagrams

• shoreless