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un·fath·om·a·ble
(ŭn-făth′ə-mə-bəl)adj.
1. Difficult or impossible to understand; incomprehensible: unfathomable theories.
2. Difficult or impossible to measure: the unfathomable depths.
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unfathomable
(ʌnˈfæðəməbəl)adj
1. incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable
2. incapable of being understood
unˈfathomableness n
unˈfathomably adv
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un•fath•om•a•ble
(ʌnˈfæð ə mə bəl)adj.
1. impossible to understand; incomprehensible.
2. incapable of being measured; limitless; vast.
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| Adj. | 1. |  unfathomable - of depth; not capable of being sounded or measureddeep - 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" |
| 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. |  unfathomable - impossible to come to understand uncomprehensible, incomprehensible - difficult to understand; "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible"- A. Einstein |
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unfathomable
adjective
1. baffling, incomprehensible, inexplicable, deep, profound, esoteric, impenetrable, unknowable, abstruse, indecipherable How unfathomable and odd is life!
2. immeasurable, bottomless, unmeasured, unplumbed, unsounded Her eyes were black, unfathomable pools.
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unfathomable
adjectiveIncapable of being grasped by the intellect or understanding:
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
unfathomable
[ʌnˈfæðəməbəl] adj (= inexplicable) [reason, mystery] → insondable
(= inscrutable) [person, expression, eyes] → insondable
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
unfathomable
adj → unergründlich
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
unfathomable
[ʌnˈfæðəməbl] adj (depths, mystery) → insondabile, imperscrutabile; (person) → impenetrabileCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995