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Definition of Fathomless
1. a. Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.
Definition of Fathomless
1. Adjective. Very deep (especially of water deeper than a lead line can measure); bottomless ¹
2. Adjective. (context: by extension) unfathomable or incomprehensible ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fathomless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fathomless
Literary usage of Fathomless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1921)
"RISE, O DAYS, FROM YOUR fathomless DEEPS 1 RISE, O days, from your fathomless
deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep, Long for my soul hungering gymnastic I ..."
2. American Ideals by Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson (1917)
"RISE, O DAYS, FROM YOUR fathomless ... WALT WHITMAN RISK, O days, from your
fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep! Long for my soul, ..."
3. Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman, Oscar Lovell Triggs (1898)
"RISE O DAYS FROM YOUR fathomless DEEPS I Rise O days from your fathomless deeps,
till you loftier, fiercer sweep, Long for my soul hungering gymnastic I ..."
4. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... Out of the bowels of the mountain torn, Its maw disgorges, while the molten
rock Rolls screaming skyward; from the nether deep The fathomless abyss ..."
5. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1898)
"The gloriously good will be princes, crowned and sceptred among the commonalty
of the city of God; for the shamefully wicked there will be fathomless depths ..."
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