unfathomable
/ʌnˈfað(ə)məb(ə)l
/adjective
1Incapable of being fully explored or understood: her grey eyes were dark with some unfathomable emotion...
- Those in the back seat explored levels of cramp unfathomable before this trip.
- They do not have the same intricate inner workings of women and they are not unfathomable pools of emotions swirling effervescently in a bubbling turmoil of feelings and needs.
- Fatty stares at me, eyes an unfathomable sea of emotion.
Synonyms
inscrutable, incomprehensible, enigmatic, incalculable, indecipherable, obscure, esoteric, abstruse, puzzling, cryptic, mysterious, mystifying, baffling, deep, profound, secretive
2(Of water or a natural feature) impossible to measure the extent of: mountains of unfathomable scale...
- Chewing my lips, I looked over the pool edge again; the deep unfathomable blue sped up my pulse rate and made my head spin.
- Some were merely deep enough to trip over; others plunged to unfathomable depths.
- But the profound meaning it implies is as deep as the depth of the unfathomable ocean.
Synonyms
deep, immeasurable, fathomless, unfathomed, unplumbed, unplumbable, bottomless, unsounded, profound
Derivatives
unfathomableness
unfathomably
- Almost unfathomably, Eric the Eel was an instant crowd favourite.
- But from ancient times to the present, great powers that expand globally often run into subnational tribes or clans who resist fiercely, even unfathomably.