fathomless
[fath -uh m-lis]
adjective
impossible to measure the depth of; bottomless.
impossible to understand; incomprehensible: fathomless motives.
Origin of fathomless
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unimaginable, unintelligible, puzzling, impenetrable, opaque, unfathomable, baffling, mystifying, inconceivable, deep, illegible, incomprehensible, meaningless, indecipherable, vague, wide, rooted, profound, far, broadExamples from the Web for fathomless
Contemporary Examples of fathomless
Of course, no one should blame the intellectuals for not being able to grasp our fathomless economic mess.
Historical Examples of fathomless
The fathomless eyes, full of gloom and of an immense despair, did not close.
Doctor PascalEmile Zola
She had probed its depth and found it fathomless––fathomless in its devotion to herself.
The Twins of Suffering CreekRidgwell Cullum
There is a fathomless look in his eyes and he is cold and unresponsive.
Mary Louise in the CountryL. Frank Baum (AKA Edith Van Dyne)
It is the home of the Archean granite, and its basins are of a fathomless dust.
Whispering SmithFrank H. Spearman
All the cone trembled as if it was about to plunge into a fathomless gulf.
In Search of the CastawaysJules Verne
fathomless
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