unfathomable
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unfathomable (comparative more unfathomable, superlative most unfathomable)
- Impossible to fathom or understand.
- Synonyms: fathomless, incomprehensible, unintelligible; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
- Antonyms: explicable, intelligible; see also Thesaurus:comprehensible
- The sheer numbers they attacked with were unfathomable.
- 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times[1]:
- Suggestions that those leaders are irrational and their decisions unfathomable are remarkably shallow. North Korea is not a theocracy led by zealots who preach the rewards of the afterlife.
- Difficult to penetrate.
- Synonyms: impenetrable, impregnable
- Antonyms: penetrable, pregnable
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impossible to fathom; incomprehensible
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difficult to penetrate
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