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UNFATHOMED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unfathomed mean?
• UNFATHOMED (adjective)
The adjective UNFATHOMED has 1 sense:
1. situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
Familiarity information: UNFATHOMED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
Synonyms:
profound; unfathomed; unplumbed; unsounded
Context example:
remote and unsounded caverns
Similar:
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)
Context examples
And then my mind made its first earnest effort to comprehend what had been infused into it concerning heaven and hell; and for the first time it recoiled, baffled; and for the first time glancing behind, on each side, and before it, it saw all round an unfathomed gulf: it felt the one point where it stood—the present; all the rest was formless cloud and vacant depth; and it shuddered at the thought of tottering, and plunging amid that chaos.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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