Meaning & use
fathomless
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Too deep to be measured or fully understood; incapable of being fathomed.
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The fathomless depths of the ocean trench remain largely unexplored.
Her grief seemed fathomless in the days after the funeral.
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Derives from "fathom," a unit historically used to measure water depth by the span of outstretched arms; something fathomless exceeds any such measure.
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