fathom
noun
a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. fath
fathomable
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a word derived from
fathom.
Example Sentences
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"This is like the absolute, absolute upper bound of what could possibly ever be fathomable," Veldman said.
From Reuters ● Nov. 13, 2023
But film by film it asks us to daydream of developments smaller in scale, albeit no more fathomable: meeting cute and trading barbs, falling head over heels and falling apart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
Grief kicks the bereft all over the place, making Carrie's urge to spend Valentine's Day with a familiar face fathomable.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2023
“Maybe galaxy formation started already at a redshift of 20,” van Dokkum says, referring to a time a mere 180 million years after the big bang, an epoch scarcely fathomable prior to JWST.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 13, 2023
They are fathomable; because they have one identical root; and this root is the ecstasy of the rhythm of the complex vision which transcends and surpasses them both.
From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys
