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fathomless

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fathomless

being or seeming to be without limits
  • impresses everyone with her fathomless knowledge of wildcats
Synonyms of fathomless

bottomless, boundless, endless, illimitable, immeasurable, immensurable, indefinite, infinite, limitless, measureless, unbounded, unfathomable, unlimited
Words Related to fathomless

abysmal

countless, incalculable, incomputable, inestimable, innumerable, unmeasured

exhaustless, inexhaustible

extensive, far-flung, immense, vast
Near Antonyms of fathomless

fathomable, measurable

depthless, shallow, superficial
Antonyms of fathomless

bounded, circumscribed, confined, definite, finite, limited, restricted

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