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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Ohtani achieved MLB’s first ever 50-50 season, founding a once fathomable club that now has a membership of one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
"This is like the absolute, absolute upper bound of what could possibly ever be fathomable," Veldman said.
From Reuters ● Nov. 13, 2023
Like, say, making portals to different existences materialize from nothing or cranking out identical slices of key lime pie for no fathomable reason.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 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
Adj. measuring &c. v.; metric, metrical; measurable, perceptible, noticeable, detectable, appreciable, ponderable, determinable, fathomable; geodetical, topographic, topographical, cartographic, cartographical.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
