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unplumbed
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un·plumbed  (n-plmd)
adj.
1. Not measured or sounded with a plumb: unplumbed ocean depths.
2. Not fully examined or explored: unplumbed ideas.

unplumbed [ʌnˈplʌmd]
adj
1. unfathomed; unsounded
2. not understood in depth
3. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) (of a building) having no plumbing
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Adj.1.unplumbed - situated at or extending to great depthunplumbed - situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed; "the profound depths of the sea"; "the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray; "unplumbed depths of the sea"; "remote and unsounded caverns"
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"
Translations
unplumbed [ˈʌnˈplʌmd] ADJno sondado, insondable
unplumbed
adjunergründet


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When, in The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud recognized that the 'concealed meaning' of parts of his dream of Irma's injection still eluded him, he consoled himself with the observation that 'there is at least one spot in every dream at which it is unplumbable -- a navel, as it were, that is its point of contact with the unknown' (Standard Edition, iv, 111, n.
I don't want to; too much is happening in my life and what's happening is too utterly primal, many-sided, unplumbable.
 
 
 
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