Word.ws English Dictionary

unfathoms

unfathoms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unfathom.

Meaning of unfathom

Verb

unfathom (third-person singular simple present unfathoms, present participle unfathoming, simple past and past participle unfathomed)

  1. (transitive) to come to comprehend; demystify.
    • […] if the anatomists and physicians find it beyond their penetration to unfathom the mysterious depths in the texture, generation, growth, and operations, of the human body; […]1823, M. Aikin, David Hughson, Memoirs of Religious Impostors from the Seventh to the Nineteenth Century
    Synonyms:
    fathom, unravel

Questions about unfathoms

What is unfathoms the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unfathoms is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unfathom.

Words near unfathoms in the dictionary

  1. unfathomableness
  2. unfathomably
  3. unfathomed
  4. unfathoming
  5. unfathomless
  6. unfathoms
  7. unfatigable
  8. unfatiguable
  9. unfatigue
  10. unfatigueable
  11. unfatigued

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unfathoms (page history and authors); unfathom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unfathoms.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unfathoms. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.