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English
Etymology
fathom + -less
Adjective
fathomless (comparative more fathomless, superlative most fathomless)
- Very deep (especially of water deeper than a lead line can measure); bottomless, immeasurable.
1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:Prais’d be the fathomless universe, / For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, / And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise! / For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
- (by extension) unfathomable or incomprehensible.
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unfathomable or incomprehensible