as in infinite
being or seeming to be without limits
impresses everyone with her fathomless knowledge of wildcats
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Recent Examples of fathomless
Their relationship climaxes with a verbal showdown late in the season that is almost unbearable to watch, as Sanada and Nishioka summon the fathomless love and respect underlying the confrontation.
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Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2024
The government’s sporadic but incessant updating of agency rules and procedures have done little to stymie routine abuses of the 702 data—which is currently fathomless.
—WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
In the days since the attacks, many have searched for historical parallels to try to make sense of the fathomless violence.
—Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2023
What to do when your life’s oldest, most familiar anchor is sent chain-snapped to the bottom of the fathomless sea?
—Tom Bissell, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
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Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2024
The government’s sporadic but incessant updating of agency rules and procedures have done little to stymie routine abuses of the 702 data—which is currently fathomless.
—WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
In the days since the attacks, many have searched for historical parallels to try to make sense of the fathomless violence.
—Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2023
What to do when your life’s oldest, most familiar anchor is sent chain-snapped to the bottom of the fathomless sea?
—Tom Bissell, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fathomless
Adjective
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Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez are seemingly unstoppable, and their building has a seemingly infinite number of murders in this Hulu mystery comedy.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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If the original function has a sharp edge, like the square wave below (which is often found in digital signals), the Fourier transform will produce an infinite set of frequencies that, when added together, approximate the edge as closely as possible.—
Shalma Wegsman,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For millions of Americans, watching the weather forecast these days feels like an endless loop of desperate doomscrolling.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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There is endless information from doctors and fellow parents out there about the right swaddles, sleep training methods, even room temperature and light levels.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
4 Sep. 2025
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