unfathomable

unfathomable
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1) ADJ-GRADED If you describe something as unfathomable, you mean that it cannot be understood or explained, usually because it is very strange or complicated.

An iron gate hung open, with a blue shirt, for some unfathomable reason, jammed between two upright bars...

How odd life was, how unfathomable, how profoundly unjust.

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2) ADJ If you use unfathomable to describe a person or the expression on their face, you mean that you cannot tell what they are thinking or what they intend to do. [LITERARY]

...a strange, unfathomable and unpredictable individual.

...the dark eyes that right now seemed opaque and unfathomable.

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  • unfathomable — index complex, inapprehensible, inarticulate, incomprehensible, indefinable, indeterminate, inexpressive, innumerable …   Law dictionary

  • unfathomable — 1610s, originally in the figurative sense, of feelings, conditions, etc., from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + FATHOMABLE (Cf. fathomable). Literal sense attested from 1670s …   Etymology dictionary

  • unfathomable — ► ADJECTIVE 1) incapable of being fully explored or understood. 2) impossible to measure the depth or extent of. DERIVATIVES unfathomably adverb unfathomed adjective …   English terms dictionary

  • unfathomable — [spelling only] …   English World dictionary

  • unfathomable — adjective a) impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible The sheer numbers they attacked with were unfathomable. b) difficult to penetrate. Ant: fathomable …   Wiktionary

  • unfathomable — adj. Unfathomable is used with these nouns: ↑mystery …   Collocations dictionary

  • unfathomable — adjective literary too strange or mysterious to be understood: the unfathomable mysteries of human nature unfathomably adverb …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • unfathomable — adjective Date: 1640 not capable of being fathomed: a. immeasurable b. impossible to comprehend …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • unfathomable — adj.; unfathomableness, n. * * * …   Universalium

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