| 单词 | unfathomed |
| 释义 | unfathomed (once / 20592 pages) adj When something is unfathomed, it's so deep or far away that it hasn't been explored. There is a huge expanse of the ocean floor that remains unfathomed. You can use the adjective unfathomed to describe quite literally places or objects that are too deep to reach or investigate. In writing, it's almost always the ocean or the sea that's described this way, since the deepest areas of these are still mostly unfathomed, even today. You can also use it figuratively: "I can't understand the unfathomed depths of his poetry." A fathom is a unit of measure mostly used for water. WORD FAMILYfathomed: unfathomed+/fathom: fathomable, fathomed, fathoming, fathoms/fathomable: unfathomable/unfathomable: unfathomably USAGE EXAMPLESThe Vatican is still grappling with the consequences of Benedict’s gesture and its yet unfathomed ramifications. Time(Feb 26, 2013) Reeling Mets Hit Bottom After a summer full of degradation and defeat, the on Thursday burrowed to a previously unfathomed nadir. New York Times(Sep 21, 2012) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary(2012) adj situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed "the dark unfathomed caves of ocean"-Thomas Gray Syn profound, unplumbed, unsounded 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 |
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