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Synonyms for fathomless
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : fath -uh m-lis |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæð əm lɪs |
Top 10 synonyms for fathomless
- abysmal
- abyssal
- ambiguous
- beats me
- below
- beneath
- beyond comprehension
- beyond one's grasp
- bottomless
- buried
- cavernous
- clear as mud
- cryptic
- Delphic
- distant
- downreaching
- enigmatic
- equivocal
- fathomless
- Greek
- immersed
- inarticulate
- incognizable
- incoherent
- indistinct
- inexplicit
- inmost
- inscrutable
- jumbled
- low
- meaningless
- muddled
- mysterious
- mystifying
- obscure
- opaque
- over one's head
- perplexing
- plumbless
- plummetless
- profound
- puzzling
- rooted
- sibylline
- subaqueous
- submarine
- submerged
- subterranean
- sunk
- tenebrous
- uncertain
- unclear
- underground
- unexplicit
- unfathomable
- ungraspable
- unimaginable
- unintelligible
- unknowable
- unreadable
- vague
- wide
- yawning
Définition of fathomless
Origin :- 1630s, literal; 1640s, figurative; from fathom + -less.
- As in incomprehensible : adj not understandable
- As in profound : adj bottomless
- As in abysmal : adj extending deeply
- As in unintelligible : adj not understandable
- As in uncomprehensible : adj incomprehensible
- As in deep : adj extending very far, usually down
- The fathomless eyes, full of gloom and of an immense despair, did not close.
- Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
- She had probed its depth and found it fathomless––fathomless in its devotion to herself.
- Extract from : « The Twins of Suffering Creek » by Ridgwell Cullum
- There is a fathomless look in his eyes and he is cold and unresponsive.
- Extract from : « Mary Louise in the Country » by L. Frank Baum (AKA Edith Van Dyne)
- It is the home of the Archean granite, and its basins are of a fathomless dust.
- Extract from : « Whispering Smith » by Frank H. Spearman
- All the cone trembled as if it was about to plunge into a fathomless gulf.
- Extract from : « In Search of the Castaways » by Jules Verne
- What can the world give her, adequate to her fathomless wants?
- Extract from : « The Young Maiden » by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
- In storm all is magnificence; in calm there is the brooding of a fathomless peace.
- Extract from : « The Cornwall Coast » by Arthur L. Salmon
- What fathomless duplicity was hers, that she could appear so innocent.
- Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris
- The fathomless and swelling cerulean is to him as the scenery of his birth place.
- Extract from : « Early Western Travels 1748-1846 » by Various
- So you see, the hearts of hetæræ are fathomless and hard to understand.
- Extract from : « The Kath Sarit Sgara » by Somadeva Bhatta
Antonyms for fathomless
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