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fathomless
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fathomless, a.
- Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. [1913 Webster]"And buckle in a waist most fathomless." [1913 Webster]
- Incomprehensible. [1913 Webster]"The fathomless absurdity." [1913 Webster]
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fathomless
Depth
N depth, deepness, profundity, depression, hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater, gulf, bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell, soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion, plummet, sound, probe, sounding rod, sounding line, lead, bathymetry, sonar, side-looking sonar, bathometer, deep, deep seated, profound, sunk, buried, submerged, subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, underground, bottomless, soundless, fathomless, unfathomed, unfathomable, abysmal, deep as a well, bathycolpian, benthal, benthopelagic, downreaching, yawning, knee deep, ankle deep, beyond one's depth, out of one's depth, over head and ears, mark twine, mark twain.
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