unfathomable definition - meaning - unfathomable in a sentence
adjective
| unfathomable definition 1 | impossible to understand |
| unfathomable synonyms | incomprehensible, abstruse, impenetrable, inscrutable, unknowable, indecipherable, arcane, enigmatic, mysterious, inexplicable, profound |
| unfathomable antonyms | straightforward, understandable, comprehensible |
unfathomable usage |
The animal behavior is unfathomable to the scientists. To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore. (Source: William Godwin in 'Thoughts on Man, His Nature, etc') An attack on Iran would have unfathomable consequences, he says, and besides, change must come from within untainted by material help from abroad. (source: Voice of America newscast) |
unfathomable definition - unfathomable meaning - unfathomable synonyms
adjective
| unfathomable definition 2 | impossible to measure |
| unfathomable synonyms | immeasurable, abysmal, abyssal, bottomless, unsounded, unplumbed, vast, deep, limitless, infinite, immense |
| unfathomable antonyms | shallow, measurable, finite, limited |
unfathomable in usage |
Rwandans endured decades of unfathomable violence |
Quotes on unfathomable - Quotes about unfathomable
Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding
— Diane Arbus
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature
— Henry David Thoreau
He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend
— Aldous Huxley
He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one
— Alice Hoffman
A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number of dark and creepy corners
— Vicki Myron
I felt instinctively that toilets - as also telephones - happened to be for reasons unfathomable, the points where my destiny was liable to catch.
— Vladimir Nabokov
For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Happily men don't realise how stupid they are, or half the world would commit suicide. Knowledge is a will-of-the-wisp, fluttering ever out of the traveller's reach; and a weary journey must be endured before it is even seen. It is only when a man knows a good deal that he discovers how unfathomable is his ignorance. The man who knows nothing is satisfied that there is nothing to know, consequently that he knows everything; and you may more easily persuade him that the moon is made of green cheese than that he is not omniscient.
— W. Somerset Maugham
