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UNPLUMBED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unplumbed mean?
• UNPLUMBED (adjective)
The adjective UNPLUMBED has 1 sense:
1. situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
Familiarity information: UNPLUMBED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
Synonyms:
profound; unfathomed; unplumbed; unsounded
Context example:
remote and unsounded caverns
Similar:
deep (having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
Ranged side by side with the bold, defiant eyes of the girl before him, he saw Ruth's clear, luminous eyes, like a saint's, gazing at him out of unplumbed depths of purity.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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