Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being fathomed or sounded by measurement.
- Capable of being sounded by thought, or comprehended.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being fathomed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective able to be to
fathomed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of meaning) capable of being penetrated or comprehended
- adjective (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth
Etymologies
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Examples
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He thinks it's just a failure to speak in fathomable language, an unthinking capitulation to the professionalization of academic discourse.
Literary Study 2009
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This test question is only fathomable when one connects that it's also the name of the UVA men's athletic teams.
Baronets, Bad and Otherwise deliasherman 2010
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For reasons fathomable only to those who live in that city, the Senate decided to debate the theory of relativity.
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All of the ostensible scoundrels are scoundrels to the core, and their scheming, both inter- and intra-clan, is Byzantine to the point of being barely fathomable.
'Shame': Tracking The Travails of Lost Souls Joe Morgenstern 2011
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He hated Reynold in every fathomable way, so much that it made him sick on a daily basis and had stolen away all of his sex drive.
The Fallen Oak Nathaniel Tower 2011
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Is the multiple cover thingy any more fathomable to you than it is to a reader?
Sequential Archaeology Roger Langridge 2009
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For reasons fathomable only to those who live in that city, the Senate decided to debate the theory of relativity.
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In a democracy, or a representative republic, that particular fear is the most illegitimate ground fathomable for keeping information secret.
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Underneath there are stories that are not fathomable.
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At the core of Job's message is that not everything is fathomable to mere mortals and that reward and punishment is not a simplistic formula that can be used to explain suffering.
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