Unfathomable
[ʌn'fæð(ə)məb(ə)l] or [ʌn'fæðəməbl]
Definition
(adj.) impossible to come to understand .
(adj.) of depth; not capable of being sounded or measured .
Typist: Miguel--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fathomless, bottomless, soundless, very deep, very profound.
Checker: Terrance
Definition
adj. that cannot be fathomed too deep to be measured or to be understood.—n. Unfath′omableness.—adv. Unfath′omably.—adj. Unfath′omed not sounded.
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Examples
- I assured her that its profundity was quite unfathomable, and expressed my belief that nothing like it had ever been known. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- My revolvers were strapped to my lifeless body which, for some unfathomable reason, I could not bring myself to touch. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The horror of it struck at me, in some unfathomable way, through my own child. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Willoughby is unfathomable! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The girl only stared at him with a black look in which flared an unfathomable hell of knowledge, and a certain impotence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It seemed unfathomable; this jewel, that you could hold between your finger and thumb, seemed unfathomable as the heavens themselves. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There is no mystery in it; there is an unfathomable mystery in the meanest of them, for ever. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- They leave Mr. Tulkinghorn, without a ruffle on the surface of his unfathomable depths, drinking his old wine, and go down into the streets. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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