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单词 fathomless
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Definition of fathomless in English:

fathomless

adjective ˈfað(ə)mləsˈfæðəmləs
  • Unable to be measured or understood; extremely deep.

    staring into a pair of cold, fathomless grey eyes
    the fathomless depths of the novel
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her faith in my indestructibility is a fathomless ocean that buoys me upward.
    • Unable to contemplate the truth of what we do, we extract from our fathomless collective guilt a story of primordial innocence.
    • His greatest weakness may well be his seemingly fathomless personal vanity.
    • What an infinitesimal fraction of time's fathomless abyss is assigned to each of us!
    • It's an image of fathomless, shocking power, like lifting a trap door and glimpsing something beautiful and noisome, fascinating and unknowable.
    Synonyms
    enigmatic, mysterious, impenetrable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, opaque, profound, deep
    bottomless, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, immeasurable, endless, infinite, measureless
    very deep, unplumbed, profound, yawning, cavernous, gaping
    literary abysmal
    rare chasmic
 
 

Definition of fathomless in US English:

fathomless

adjectiveˈfaT͟Həmləsˈfæðəmləs
  • Unable to be measured or understood; extremely deep.

    staring into a pair of cold, fathomless grey eyes
    the fathomless depths of the novel
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's an image of fathomless, shocking power, like lifting a trap door and glimpsing something beautiful and noisome, fascinating and unknowable.
    • His greatest weakness may well be his seemingly fathomless personal vanity.
    • Unable to contemplate the truth of what we do, we extract from our fathomless collective guilt a story of primordial innocence.
    • What an infinitesimal fraction of time's fathomless abyss is assigned to each of us!
    • Her faith in my indestructibility is a fathomless ocean that buoys me upward.
    Synonyms
    enigmatic, mysterious, impenetrable, incomprehensible, unfathomable, opaque, profound, deep
    bottomless, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, immeasurable, endless, infinite, measureless
 
 
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