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UK
/ʌnplˈʌmd/
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ADJECTIVE
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situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
unplumbed depths of the sea
the dark unfathomed caves of ocean
the profound depths of the sea
remote and unsounded caverns
How To Use unplumbed In A Sentence
- Featuring three bald, blue persons in a whole array (two, actually) of wacky scenarios, the ads plumb previously unplumbed depths according to The Register's resident marketing guru, Doctor Spinola.
- The musical Once Around the City, with music by Robert Reale and book and lyrics by his brother, Willie, finds unplumbed depths of awfulness in every department, including sets, costumes, staging, and choreography.
- But this too became for Beethoven ‘another form of self-denial,’ while musically he worked out ‘possible reconfigurations of musical form… [in order] to sound unplumbed depths of expressivity.’
- unplumbed depths of the sea
- As I write this she's plummeting into the darkness of the West, diving head first into long denied emotions, into the unplumbed depths of subjective and global pain.
- Ready to Rumble is a movie where no joke about raw sewage goes unplumbed.
- Bourne writes, ‘In his new enthusiasms for continental literature, for unplumbed Russian depths, for French clarity of thought, for Teuton philosophies of power, [the immigrant] feels himself citizen of a larger world’.
- His expression barely changes from a troubled scowl for the whole movie, but Shimura's empathic embodiment of Watanabe is a slow-burn revelation of a small man's unplumbed depths.
- At another 'fully furnished' flat she arrived to find no curtains, the shower broken and the washing machine unplumbed. Times, Sunday Times
- William James used it to describe states of insight unplumbed by the discursive intellect involving illuminations and revelations that, while inarticulate, are full of significance and importance.