ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsFfathomable
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fathomable
Meaning: able to be understood or figured out
fathomable in a sentence
How fathomable is used in real sentences:
With the diagram in front of her, the tangled wiring finally seemed fathomable.
After weeks of confusion, the tax form's instructions finally became fathomable once she read the glossary.
“Only when weather, tide, and individual histories were considered together did the pool become fathomable; no single observation had explained it.”
— from the passage A Basin Between Tides
Synonyms for fathomable
Other words for fathomable — understandable, comprehensible and graspable — carry the same meaning.
- understandable
- comprehensible
- graspable
Antonyms of fathomable
Words that mean the opposite of fathomable:
- incomprehensible
- baffling
Where it comes from
From Old English faedm 'measure of outstretched arms,' extended to 'to gauge, understand'
Memory hook
You can measure the depths of something FATHOMABLE and understand it.
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