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(adj) silent
not made to sound
the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'; in French certain letters are often unsounded
(adj) unfathomed, unplumbed, profound
situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
the profound depths of the sea; the dark unfathomed caves of ocean-Thomas Gray; unplumbed depths of the sea; remote and unsounded caverns