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fathomable - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
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adjective fathomed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective adjective
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fathom + -able
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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
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
For reasons fathomable only to those who live in that city, the Senate decided to debate the theory of relativity.
How Einstein Divided America's Jews 2009
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
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
Is the multiple cover thingy any more fathomable to you than it is to a reader?
Sequential Archaeology Roger Langridge 2009
For reasons fathomable only to those who live in that city, the Senate decided to debate the theory of relativity.
How Einstein Divided America's Jews 2009
In a democracy, or a representative republic, that particular fear is the most illegitimate ground fathomable for keeping information secret.
Shahid Buttar: Secrecy Sacrificing National Security 2010
Underneath there are stories that are not fathomable .
Adele Barker: Heartbreak in Post-War Jaffna 2010
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.
The Book of Job, Part 2, Theodicy on the street 2010
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