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unplumbed

[uhn-pluhmd]
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adjective
  1. not plumbed; not tested or measured with a plumb line.
  2. not understood or explored in depth, as an idea, theory, feeling, or experience.
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Origin of unplumbed

First recorded in 1615–25; un-1 + plumb + -ed3
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Related Words

infiniteboundlessimmeasurableunchartedabysmaldeepeternalsoundlessunendingunmeasuredunplumbedundeterminedunfathomed

Examples from the Web for unplumbed

Historical Examples

  • His silences had not proceeded from the unplumbed depths of his knowledge.

    Gigolo

    Edna Ferber

  • Down, down, to what unplumbed depths had it gone, those other times?

    The Fate of Felix Brand

    Florence Finch Kelly

  • It cried to him out, as it seemed, of some unplumbed depth of experience in himself.

  • One drop of the salt estranging sea is as unplumbed as the whole ocean.

    Robert Browning

    Edward Dowden

  • Helen grew conscious of unplumbed depths, of instincts at which she was amazed and ashamed.

British Dictionary definitions for unplumbed

unplumbed

adjective
  1. unfathomed; unsounded
  2. not understood in depth
  3. (of a building) having no plumbing
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