Meanings
- not comparableLike a chasm or gulf.
I stand around them, I talk, I laugh, because I have to make believe that I can talk and laugh with people my age and ignore the chasmous depths whirling in blackness between us.
2014, Molly Miltenberger Murray, Today, She Is, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 622 more examples
Then was heard the mountain torrent Swelling with a mighty current Craggy rocks and boulders o'er Like the sullen thunders' roar In the chasmous dell beneath, Hearing which the Elephant Down that perilous descent Madly plunging met his death.
1879, Sir Alexander Cunningham, The Stûpa of Bharhut, page 61There's always an arranged marriage. I can attest to their efficacy – though perhaps you should try an age gap less chasmous than Cesco's. Or mine! Also, it seems to me that if a woman wooed you, you could marry her.
2014, David Blixt, The Prince's Doom, Sordelet Ink, →ISBN - nonstandardnot comparablepossiblyCavernous, like a vast hollow space.
[...What] they had mistakenly landed on in their fright and confusion, dark raspy voices could be heard, and as Bryn did his best at listening in, he could slightly overhear what was being discussed at the end of that chasmous tunnel.
2012, Timothy Lopez, Citadel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 1311 more example
Where once, off Cape Musandam, Indian sailors would pause for the sake of a propitious voyage to cast flowers, coconuts and fruit, or launch a model boat, upon the waters, chasmous oil tankers and cargo ships now process blithely and ...
1997, Charles E. Davies, The Blood-red Arab Flag: An Investigation Into Qasimi Piracy, 1797-1820, University of Exeter Press, →ISBN, page 271
Origin
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