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fathomless
[ fath-uhm-lis ]
adjective
- impossible to measure the depth of; bottomless.
- impossible to understand; incomprehensible:
fathomless motives.
fathomless
/ ˈfæðəmlɪs /
Derived Forms
- ˈfathomlessness, noun
- ˈfathomlessly, adverb
Other Words From
- fathom·less·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of fathomless1
Example Sentences
Of course, no one should blame the intellectuals for not being able to grasp our fathomless economic mess.
Some fathomless millpool would hold Michael and Alan with its hollow waterfall and overarching trees and gigantic pike.
The Southern night had fallen; the stars came out by countless thousands in the calm fathomless sky.
Squadrons of cavalry fell upon fields of ice, and men and horses were precipitated into fathomless depths below.
Her eyes were not the quiet, solemn eyes of the little princess of his fairy tales, but the deep, fathomless eyes of a maiden.
Burying trails, filling canyons with fathomless depths of snow, it might shut them away from all the outside world.
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