unfathomable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ fathom +‎ -able.

Adjective

unfathomable (comparative more unfathomable, superlative most unfathomable)

Impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible.
The sheer numbers they attacked with were unfathomable.
- 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times‎:
  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.

Antonyms

fathomable

Derived terms

Translations

impossible to fathom; incomprehensible

Catalan: incomprensible
Dutch: onbegrijpelijk (nl)
Finnish: käsittämätön (fi)
French: incompréhensible (fr)
Italian: insondabile, imperscrutabile (it), incomprensibile (it)

Japanese: 理解できないほど (りかいできないほど, rikai dekinai hodo)
Romanian: de neînțeles
Russian: непостижи́мый (ru) (nepostižímyj)
Spanish: incomprensible (es)
Swedish: obegriplig (sv), ofattbar (sv)

difficult to penetrate

Czech: neproniknutelný m, neproniknutelná f, neproniknutelné n
Dutch: onpeilbaar (nl), ondoordringbaar (nl)
Finnish: läpitunkematon

French: insondable (fr)
Spanish: insondable

See also

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