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unfathomable

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un·fath·om·a·ble  (n-f-m-bl)
adj.
1. Difficult or impossible to understand; incomprehensible: unfathomable theories.
2. Difficult or impossible to measure: the unfathomable depths.

unfathomable [ʌnˈfæðəməbəl]
adj
1. incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable
2. incomprehensible
unfathomableness  n
unfathomably  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.unfathomableunfathomable - of depth; not capable of being sounded or measured
deep - having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination; "a deep well"; "a deep dive"; "deep water"; "a deep casserole"; "a deep gash"; "deep massage"; "deep pressure receptors in muscles"; "deep shelves"; "a deep closet"; "surrounded by a deep yard"; "hit the ball to deep center field"; "in deep space"; "waist-deep"
fathomable, plumbable, soundable - (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth
2.unfathomable - resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable; "the abyssal depths of the ocean"
deep - having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination; "a deep well"; "a deep dive"; "deep water"; "a deep casserole"; "a deep gash"; "deep massage"; "deep pressure receptors in muscles"; "deep shelves"; "a deep closet"; "surrounded by a deep yard"; "hit the ball to deep center field"; "in deep space"; "waist-deep"
3.unfathomableunfathomable - impossible to come to understand    
uncomprehensible, incomprehensible - difficult to understand; "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible"- A. Einstein

unfathomable
adjective
2. immeasurable, bottomless, unmeasured, unplumbed, unsounded Her eyes were black, unfathomable pools.
Translations
unfathomable [ʌnˈfæðəməbl] ADJinsondable
unfathomable [ʌnˈfæðəməbəl] adj
(= inexplicable) [reason, mystery] → insondable
(= inscrutable) [person, expression, eyes] → insondable
unfathomable
unfathomable [ʌnˈfæðəməbl] adj (depths, mystery) → insondabile, imperscrutabile; (person) → impenetrabile
unfathomable [ʌnˈfæðəməbl] adj (depths, mystery) → insondabile, imperscrutabile; (person) → impenetrabile


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And into the unfathomable did I there seem to sink.
The West Wind is too great a king to be a dissembler: he is no calculator plotting deep schemes in a sombre heart; he is too strong for small artifices; there is passion in all his moods, even in the soft mood of his serene days, in the grace of his blue sky whose immense and unfathomable tenderness reflected in the mirror of the sea embraces, possesses, lulls to sleep the ships with white sails.
Steady-eyed like her husband, she preserved an air of unfathomable indifference behind the rampart of the counter.
 
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