Unfathomable - English meaning

adjective

Difficult to understand; obscure.

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An abstruse philosophical inquiry

adjective

Not known or understood by many people

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An abstruse philosophical essay

adjective

Impossible to understand; perplexing.

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The crime is a baffling mystery for the police

verb

Totally bewilder or perplex.

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An unexplained occurrence that baffled everyone

adjective

Without a bottom.

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Plant mint in a bottomless bucket sunk into the ground

adjective

Having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure.

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He found his boss's utterances too cryptic

adjective

Mysterious and difficult to understand

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A cryptic message/remark

adjective

Extending far down from the top or surface.

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A deep gorge

noun

The sea.

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Denizens of the deep

adverb

The part of the field distant from the batsman.

adjective

Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious.

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He took the money with an enigmatic smile

adjective

Mysterious and impossible to understand completely

Usage examples:

The mona lisa has a famously enigmatic smile., he left an enigmatic message on my answering machine.

adjective

Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.

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Esoteric philosophical debates

adjective

Intended for or understood by only a few people who have special knowledge

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Literary readings can sometimes seem esoteric, but we are trying to make them more attractive to mo…

adjective

Unable to be measured or understood; extremely deep.

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Staring into a pair of cold, fathomless grey eyes

adjective

Too large, extensive, or extreme to measure.

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Immeasurable suffering

adjective

So large or great that it cannot be measured or known exactly

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Her movies had an immeasurable effect on a generation of americans.

adjective

Too great to be calculated or estimated.

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An archive of incalculable value

adjective

Too large to be calculated or measured, or extremely large

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The consequences of a nuclear war are incalculable.

adjective

Impossible to measure

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The cost in lost customer goodwill is incalculable., incalculable damage/harm

adjective

Not able to be understood; not intelligible.

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A language which is incomprehensible to anyone outside the office

adjective

Not able to be read or understood.

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Indecipherable scrawls

adjective

Unable to be read or understood

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Her handwriting is virtually indecipherable.

adjective

Impossible to understand or interpret.

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Guy looked blankly inscrutable

adjective

Difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify.

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His colleague had vanished in mysterious circumstances

adjective

Strange, not known, or not understood

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She's an actress whose inner life has remained mysterious, despite the many interviews she has give…

adjective

Utterly bewildering or perplexing.

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A mystifying phenomenon

verb

Utterly bewilder or perplex (someone).

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I was completely mystified by his disappearance

adjective

Very strange or impossible to explain

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After ten years her mystifying disappearance was still unexplained., the film tells the strange and…

adjective

Not discovered or known about; uncertain.

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His origins and parentage are obscure

verb

Keep from being seen; conceal.

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Grey clouds obscure the sun

adjective

Not known to many people

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An obscure 18th-century painter, official policy has changed for reasons that remain obscure.

adjective

(of a state, quality, or emotion) very great or intense.

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Profound feelings of disquiet

noun

The deepest part of something, especially the ocean.

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Nor billowy surge disturbs the vast profound

adjective

Felt or experienced strongly; extreme

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The speech had a profound influence on her., you’re touching on a very profound question.

adjective

Causing one to be puzzled; perplexing.

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Only one very puzzling question remains unanswered

verb

Cause (someone) to feel confused because they cannot understand something.

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She was puzzled by the doctor's manner

adjective

Difficult to explain or understand

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It's a rather puzzling film., a puzzling situation

adjective

(of a person or an organization) inclined to conceal feelings and intentions or not to disclose information.

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She was very secretive about her past

adjective

Not wanting others to know, or done privately so that others do not know

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Secretive dealings, she’s secretive about her age.

adjective

Not fully explored or understood.

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Throughout the book her emotions remain relatively opaque and unfathomed

adjective

Not fully explored or understood.

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One-dimensional performances that leave the play's psychological depths unplumbed

adjective

Not uttered, pronounced, or made to sound.

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An goes before words that start with the vowels a, e, i, o, and u and also before words that start …

adjective

Unfathomed.

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When they noticed that many shallow earthquakes came from under it, they searched seismograph recor…

adjective

Not said aloud or not making a noise that can be heard

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The post-vowel written r is unsounded in many british accents., the bass fills in the unsounded bea…