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fathomless

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fath·om·less  (fm-ls)
adj.
1. Too deep to be fathomed or measured.
2. Too obscure or complicated to be understood.
fathom·less·ly adv.
fathom·less·ness n.
fathomless
Adjective
too deep or difficult to fathom
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Standing in iron hoops nailed to the mast, they swayed and swung over a fathomless sea; and though, when the ship slowly glided close under our stern, we six men in the air came so nigh to each other that we might almost have leaped from the mast-heads of one ship to those of the other; yet, those forlorn-looking fishermen, mildly eyeing us as they passed, said not one word to our own look-outs, while the quarter-deck hail was being heard from below.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
How daring an ambition; yet how deep- How fathomless a capacity for love!
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
And through it all the awful cry came up from that fathomless pit, whose entrance was flooded with spots of fresh blood.
The Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram View in context
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