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Webster 1828 Edition

Unfathomable

UNFATH'OMABLE

, a.

1.

That cannot be sounded by a line; as an unfathomable lake.

2.

So deep or remote that the limit or extent cannot be found. The designs of Providence are often unfathomable.

Definition 2024

unfathomable

unfathomable

English

Adjective

unfathomable ‎(comparative more unfathomable, superlative most unfathomable)

Impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible.
The sheer numbers they attacked with were unfathomable.
- 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times:
  Suggestions that those leaders are irrational and their decisions unfathomable are remarkably shallow. North Korea is not a theocracy led by zealots who preach the rewards of the afterlife.
Difficult to penetrate.

Translations

impossible to fathom; incomprehensible

Dutch: onbegrijpelijk (nl)
Finnish: käsittämätön (fi)
French: incompréhensible (fr)

Italian: insondabile, imperscrutabile (it), incomprensibile (it)
Japanese: 理解できないほど ‎(りかいできないほど, rikai dekinai hodo)
Russian: непостижи́мый (ru) ‎(nepostižímyj)
Swedish: obegriplig (sv), ofattbar (sv)

difficult to penetrate

Czech: neproniknutelný m, neproniknutelná f, neproniknutelné n
Dutch: onpeilbaar (nl), ondoordringbaar (nl)
Finnish: läpitunkematon

French: insondable (fr)
Spanish: insondable

Antonyms

fathomable

See also