"unfathomable" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ʌnˈfæðəməbəl/, /ʌnˈfæðməbəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unfathomable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more unfathomable [comparative], most unfathomable [superlative]
Etymology: un- + fathom + -able. Etymology templates: {{af|en|un-|fathom|-able}} un- + fathom + -able Head templates: {{en-adj}} unfathomable (comparative more unfathomable, superlative most unfathomable)
  1. Impossible to fathom or understand. Synonyms: fathomless, incomprehensible, unintelligible, incomprehensible Translations (impossible to fathom; incomprehensible): необхватен (neobhvaten) (Bulgarian), неразбираем (nerazbiraem) (Bulgarian), incomprensible (Catalan), onbegrijpelijk (Dutch), ondoorgrondelijk (Dutch), käsittämätön (Finnish), incompréhensible (French), unfassbar (German), unermesslich (German), 𐌿𐌽𐌿𐍃𐍃𐍀𐌹𐌻𐌻𐍉𐌸𐍃 (unusspillōþs) (Gothic), insondabile (Italian), imperscrutabile (Italian), incomprensibile (Italian), 理解できないほど (rikai dekinai hodo) (alt: りかいできないほど) (Japanese), indēspectus (Latin), insasisable (Occitan), incomprensible (Occitan), niezgłębiony (Polish), incompreensível (Portuguese), de neînțeles (Romanian), непостижи́мый (nepostižímyj) (Russian), incomprensible (Spanish), obegriplig (Swedish), ofattbar (Swedish), outgrundlig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-unfathomable-en-adj-Oy468~6Q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un-, English terms suffixed with -able Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 87 13 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 65 35 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -able: 67 33 Disambiguation of 'impossible to fathom; incomprehensible': 89 11
  2. Difficult to penetrate. Synonyms: impenetrable, impregnable Translations (difficult to penetrate): neproniknutelný (Czech), onpeilbaar (Dutch), ondoordringbaar (Dutch), läpitunkematon (Finnish), insondable (French), insondable (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-unfathomable-en-adj-oQwbw9C8 Disambiguation of 'difficult to penetrate': 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: unfathomability, unfathomableness Related terms: fathomless, unfathomed, unimaginable, inconceivable

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      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
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      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
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      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
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      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
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      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
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      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
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      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
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      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
      "word": "de neînțeles"
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      "roman": "nepostižímyj",
      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
      "word": "непостижи́мый"
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      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
      "word": "incomprensible"
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    {
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
      "word": "obegriplig"
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
      "word": "ofattbar"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "impossible to fathom; incomprehensible",
      "word": "outgrundlig"
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      "sense": "difficult to penetrate",
      "word": "neproniknutelný"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "difficult to penetrate",
      "word": "onpeilbaar"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "difficult to penetrate",
      "word": "ondoordringbaar"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "difficult to penetrate",
      "word": "läpitunkematon"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "difficult to penetrate",
      "word": "insondable"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "difficult to penetrate",
      "word": "insondable"
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  "word": "unfathomable"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.