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abysmic

abysmic adjective: abysmal; like an abyss.

Adjective

abysmic (comparative more abysmic, superlative most abysmic)

  1. (uncommon) Abysmal; like an abyss.
    • These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere...1892, Walt Whitman, “Notes Left Over: Emerson's Books”, in Complete Prose Works
    • The spacial depths between the glittering threads of the web and the chef seemed abysmic and prodigious. He might have belonged to another realm.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC

Forms of abysmic

comparativemore abysmic
superlativemost abysmic

Origin of abysmic

From abysm + -ic.

Questions about abysmic

What does abysmic mean?
Abysmic means abysmal; like an abyss.
What part of speech is abysmic?
Abysmic is an adjective.

Words near abysmic in the dictionary

  1. abymes
  2. Abys
  3. abysm
  4. abysmal
  5. abysmally
  6. abysmic
  7. abysms
  8. abysmus
  9. abysmuses
  10. abyss
  11. Abyss.

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