Antonyms for fathom
ˈfæð əmfath·om

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. fathomverb

   Synonyms:
   fathom out, figure out, work out, puzzle out

2. fathomverb

   Grasp, envelopment, control.

   Synonyms:
   figure out, fathom out, work out, puzzle out

3. fathomverb

   To measure the depth of, take a sounding of.

   Synonyms:
   work out, figure out, puzzle out, fathom out

4. fathomverb

   To get to the bottom of; to manage to comprehend (a problem etc.).

   I can't for the life of me fathom what this means.

   Synonyms:
   puzzle out, fathom out, work out, figure out

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.3 / 4 votes

1. fathom

   Antonyms:
   survey, glance, scan, overlook, miss, graze, skim

   Synonyms:
   gauge, pierce, measure, sound, probe

Matched Categories

1. • Measure
   • Understand

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. fathom, fthmnoun

   a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth

   Synonyms:
   fthm

2. fathom, fthmverb

   (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore

   Synonyms:
   fthm

3. penetrate, fathom, bottomverb

   come to understand

   Synonyms:
   click, imbue, riddle, dawn, infiltrate, permeate, perforate, diffuse, sink in, penetrate, come home, get through, bottom, fall into place, sound, pervade, get across, interpenetrate

4. fathom, soundverb

   measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line

   Synonyms:
   sound, vocalise, penetrate, voice, vocalize, bottom, go

How to use fathom in a sentence?

1. from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald):

   You know, my Friends, with what a brave CarouseI made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and LineAnd "Up-and-down" by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, IWas never deep in anything but - Wine.

2. Breonna Taylor:

   We didn't fathom that it would be a situation where they would indict on charges against the neighbors and absolutely nothing on Breonna Taylor.

3. Bob Jones:

   I take serious issue when somebody who's done a little non-fighting time in Iraq, and is not a Middle East or Islamic scholar, claims to know better than our President and Secretary of State how to fathom the motivations of terrorists, or how to refer to them beyond the term that best describes them -- terrorists.

4. Mike Kisting:

   I can't fathom why a person would want to do that, he was lucky I wasn't there that day.

5. George Du Maurier:

   Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

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