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fathomless

[fath -uh m-lis]
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adjective
  1. impossible to measure the depth of; bottomless.
  2. impossible to understand; incomprehensible: fathomless motives.
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Origin of fathomless

First recorded in 1600–10; fathom + -less
Related formsfath·om·less·ly, adverb
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Related Words for fathomless

unimaginable, unintelligible, puzzling, impenetrable, opaque, unfathomable, baffling, mystifying, inconceivable, deep, illegible, incomprehensible, meaningless, indecipherable, vague, wide, rooted, profound, far, broad

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Contemporary Examples of fathomless

Historical Examples of fathomless

  • The fathomless eyes, full of gloom and of an immense despair, did not close.

    Doctor Pascal

    Emile Zola

  • She had probed its depth and found it fathomless––fathomless in its devotion to herself.

  • There is a fathomless look in his eyes and he is cold and unresponsive.

    Mary Louise in the Country

    L. Frank Baum (AKA Edith Van Dyne)

  • It is the home of the Archean granite, and its basins are of a fathomless dust.

    Whispering Smith

    Frank H. Spearman

  • All the cone trembled as if it was about to plunge into a fathomless gulf.

British Dictionary definitions for fathomless

fathomless

adjective
  1. another word for unfathomable
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Derived Formsfathomlessly, adverbfathomlessness, noun
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Word Origin and History for fathomless

adj.

1630s, literal; 1640s, figurative; from fathom + -less.

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