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单词 fathomless
释义

fathomless

adjective

fath·​om·​less ˈfa-t͟həm-ləs How to pronounce fathomless (audio)
: incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable
fathomless powers of gravity and chemistry R. W. Emerson
fathomlessly adverb
fathomlessness noun

Synonyms

  • bottomless
  • boundless
  • endless
  • horizonless
  • illimitable
  • immeasurable
  • immensurable
  • indefinite
  • infinite
  • limitless
  • measureless
  • unbounded
  • unfathomable
  • unlimited
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Example Sentences

impresses everyone with her fathomless knowledge of wildcats
Recent Examples on the Web But over the years, the song has revealed itself to contain fathomless depths that have only been audible in later interpretations. New York Times, 26 July 2022 Just visible on top of Monte Sant'Angelo, directly south, was the first-century B.C. Temple of Jupiter Anxur, its stone arches solid and elemental against a fathomless sky. Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022 Without a breath of explanation, the two pieces radiate emotion, somber and fathomless; but their precedent, an 1882 photograph by James A. Palmer, binds them together. Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2022 The water’s silver surface seems serene and fathomless, but the wind is starting to pick up. Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2022 Heirs first to genocide and then to decades of a shadowy half-life, these speakers let slip not just sorrow and confusion but a fathomless loneliness—the solitude of a private and communal shipwreck. Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022 Having grown up among the unimaginably wealthy, Farrah is stunned to learn the difference between her parents’ relatively new money and the fathomless cushion of white generational wealth. Zan Romanoff, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022 But his Cold War spy stories remain relevant and readable today, thanks to a combination of genuine literary talent and a fathomless cynicism about political and military maneuvering (including that of Le Carré's own country). Jeff Dunn And Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2021 But to study the deep future is to recognize that flora and fauna, human fauna included, may be bit players in the fathomless intergalactic drama of chemicals. Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Oct. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1638, in the meaning defined above

fathomless

adjective

as in infinite
being or seeming to be without limits impresses everyone with her fathomless knowledge of wildcats

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • infinite
  • endless
  • boundless
  • measureless
  • limitless
  • vast
  • illimitable
  • immeasurable
  • unfathomable
  • unbounded
  • unlimited
  • horizonless
  • bottomless
  • immense
  • inexhaustible
  • unmeasured
  • exhaustless
  • incalculable
  • extensive
  • immensurable
  • indefinite
  • abysmal
  • innumerable
  • inestimable
  • countless
  • incomputable
  • far-flung

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • confined
  • limited
  • finite
  • definite
  • bounded
  • circumscribed
  • restricted
  • measurable
  • shallow
  • depthless
  • superficial
  • fathomable
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