The Only Use of
fathom
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter that year.
p. 72.0unfathomable = not understandablestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfathomable means not and reverses the meaning of fathomable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definition:
to come to understand