fathomless

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The darkness was fathomless, the silence complete.

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  1. adjective Too deep to be fathomed or measured.
  2. adjective Too obscure or complicated to be understood.

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  • She thought of Dante's eyes, black and fathomless, and the way he had been looking at her. —  Author Galley
  • I had, my mother, from the time of leaving my dear relations and friends, passed through waters deep as the fathomless ocean which I crossed; but with the Lord there is mercy; with him is 'plenteous redemption.' —  The Power of Faith
  • It was not the terrible force with which the vessel was hurled up and down, entirely at the mercy of this sea monster, which appeared now as a fathomless abyss, now as a steep mountain peak, that filled me with mortal dread; my premonition of some terrible crisis was aroused by the despondency of the crew, whose malignant glances seemed superstitiously to point to us as the cause of the threatening disaster. —  My Life, Volume I
  • Day after day the fathomless, the seemingly illimitable sea, the image of the Infinite was around him--but his darkened mind saw in it only a prison, which shut him in with his persecutors. —  Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest
  • And before Perseus there stood one whose grey eyes were as the fathomless sea on the dawn of a summer day. —  A Book of Myths
 

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/ˈfæðumlɛs/
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