plumbless

plumbless — 形容詞

  • plumblesspositive
  • more plumblesscomparative
  • most plumblesssuperlative

1. Too deep, vast, or mysterious for its full extent to be seen or understood.

1.形容詞C2
釋義

深不可測

深到無法測量或理解的

Too deep, vast, or mysterious for its full extent to be seen or understood.

例句

The old well behind the cottage seemed plumbless, its dark water hiding the bottom.

那間老屋後面的井看似深不可測，黑暗的水面完全看不出底部在哪裡。

From the cliff edge, Ezra could see the plumbless canyon stretching into the fog below.

從懸崖邊緣望去，Ezra 可以看到深不可測的峽谷延伸進下方濃霧之中。

prepositional fronting + noun phrase 'plumbless canyon' for natural features

常見搭配
  • plumbless depths
  • plumbless ocean
  • plumbless canyon
  • plumbless well
  • plumbless sadness
  • plumbless mystery
  • plumbless darkness
同義詞
  • fathomless

    more common synonym with the same root; also literary but slightly less rare

  • bottomless

    more concrete and less formal; often describes physical pits or holes

  • unfathomable

    can also mean impossible to understand, not just physically deep

  • immeasurable

    broader in scope, can refer to any dimension (time, distance, quantity)

反義詞
  • shallow

    opposite of physical depth; common and neutral in register

  • fathomable

    rare technical antonym, almost exclusively used in metaphorical contexts

  • measurable

    opposite in the sense of 'able to be quantified or assessed'

文法句型

plumbless + noun (attributive)

be + plumbless (predicative)

用法筆記

Almost always found in formal or literary writing. Frequently modifies nouns describing natural features (oceans, canyons, wells, trenches) or abstract emotional states (sadness, darkness, mystery).

常見錯誤

The old house was plumbless, so we had no running water.
The old house had no plumbing, so we had no running water.
'plumbless' means too deep to measure, not 'without plumbing fixtures.'

同根字

  • plumb
    動詞C2
  • plumb
    名詞C2
  • plumbing
    名詞B1
  • plumbable
    形容詞C2