What's the difference between bottomless and fathomless?

Bottomless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as Smallwood points out, efficiency savings are not a bottomless pit.
  • (2) But at the centre of it all, Pistorius remained utterly isolated, plunged into a seemingly bottomless pit of despair.
  • (3) With bottomless cynicism, Cameron relies on public ignorance on tax.
  • (4) When we were little, she was always tempting us with sugary treats: a bottomless Smarties bin and her legendary coke floats – a lump of vanilla ice-cream fizzing in a glass of cold cola.
  • (5) It’s because his is a spirit of fear and emptiness, that seeks only to fill his bottomless insecurity with worldly affirmations and idols, instead of humbling himself before the only One who can make him whole.
  • (6) Full disclosure (ahem): Vrulja Cove is also a haven for toplessness, and sometimes bottomlessness.
  • (7) Expired gas was collected by a bottomless metabolism chamber while the rats were on the treadmill for 120 min.
  • (8) As journalist Peter Maass noted , “The agency can take companies to court, but its overworked lawyers don’t really have the time to go the distance against the bottomless legal staff in Silicon Valley.” Maass concluded that the agency was low-tech, toothless – and defensive about work like his.
  • (9) There’s nothing good that comes out of the death of someone you love, but I have learned this: the magnitude and bottomlessness of the pain you feel is a testament to the love you shared.
  • (10) It is also a further indication that, given the £5.1bn they shelled out between them on Premier League football, neither Sky nor BT have a bottomless pit of funds .
  • (11) The pancakes came accompanied by "whipped butter" and a mysterious "maple-style" syrup and "bottomless" coffee, which the waitress flung into my cup from a glass pot with a practised jolt of her shoulder.
  • (12) Lord Smith said "difficult choices" would have to be made over what to protect because "there is no bottomless purse" to pay for defences.
  • (13) On Monday morning, before the demonstration, Philippe Martinez, secretary general of the powerful CGT union, told RTL radio: “For several years now, successive heads of Air France have suggested rescue plans … each time, it’s a bottomless pit with the same suggestions.
  • (14) 2) A duet makes fiscal sense during these tough times Because when you've got a bottomless bucket of talent and a finite amount of time (not finite enough, some may argue) you have to duet right (Geddit?
  • (15) But there’s nothing more for the NHS, which is not a “bottomless pit”: it just needs the scale of funds per capita of an ageing population that it had 10 years ago.
  • (16) But even with expensive lawyers and bottomless pockets, this was a clear case of users’ rights – so we felt it was the right time to stand up and draw a line in the sand.
  • (17) "Ministers have a responsibility to retain a high degree of budget control, not least because the LCF is not a bottomless pit of money, it is paid for through the energy bills of households and businesses and as such excessive deployment of subsidised projects could and would lead to higher bills for the public."
  • (18) Michael Hewson of CMC Markets said Monte dei Paschi seemed like a bottomless pit: “With the Italian economy continuing to contract, and 18% of the bank’s loans being problematic, it is hard to envisage a scenario where the bank won’t end up like Oliver and coming back and asking for more.” By contrast, Germany’s Commerzbank gained 9% and Austria’s Raiffeisen was up 7.3%, after passing the tests.
  • (19) Arnett may say he’s looking to get more serious, and I hope he does, but BoJack proves, happily, his reluctance to kill that old creepy Arnett I love so much, and for that I’m bottomlessly glad.
  • (20) She writes: With its European partners reluctant to ‘throw money into a bottomless pit’ Samaras’ insistence that Greece requires no more money is supposed to reassure.

Fathomless


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.
  • (a.) Incomprehensible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Coming from the dense urban context of Italy, where he grew up in Turin, Soleri found American cities to be anathema, their auto-centric planning “a fathomless sinkhole for immense waste”.
  • (2) The crown translates a woman to a Queen – endless gold, circling itself, an O like a well, fathomless, for the years to drown in – history's bride, anointed, blessed, for a crowning.
  • (3) But I began hearing something used more and more widely on my noughties jazz travels: a taut, unsentimental, many-layered sound that seemed to connect to the interlocking patterns of hip-hop and dance beats, the power of computers and fathomless online jukeboxes, contemporary-classical and minimalist ideas, and the cyclical patterns of African and Indian traditions.
  • (4) So they papered over what was a dark, fathomless chasm in their marriage and pretended all was well.
  • (5) It's drily funny, a little self-deprecating, told in a slightly camp Oldham accent, and it features one of his seemingly fathomless array of celebrity friends.
  • (6) Here was a calm, ponderous and dedicated European brushing up against the man whose ignorance of foreign affairs seems fathomless, and whose brain seems to work in 140-character spurts of vulgarity and provocation.
  • (7) For a fathomless reason Meyler decided to turn the ball from the left towards Jakupovic only to pass straight to Giroud, and the Frenchman made no mistake for a 19th strike of the season.
  • (8) I was a little frightened of the house at first: those eyes followed me doggedly, and at night, when the darkness was fathomless, the house embarked on long interior monologues, the water groaning in its old pipes, the floorboards clicking and creaking, the damp walls sometimes emitting a profound shudder or sigh, while outside the wind roared in the oak trees and over the black shapes of hills.