Definition of "fathomless" []

• Too deep to be fathomed or measured. (adjective)
• Too obscure or complicated to be understood. (adjective)

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• "It is indeed a fathomless mystery of theology, and even if I were theologian enough to deal with it directly, it would not be relevant to do so here."
• "They liked to believe that King Minos of Crete, their mythical enemy from some even older past, had hidden a hellish monster that devoured the flower of Greek youth in the fathomless Labyrinth set below the palace of Knossos."
• "Adrian Wilson couldn't quite bring himself to acknowledge the depths of fathomless futility."