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chasmatical

chasmatical adjective: chasmal (of or like a chasm).

Adjective

chasmatical

  1. (rare) Chasmal (of or like a chasm).
    • Pray, Madam! let me have none of your chasmatical impertinence.1760 June 14, The Monitor, or British Freeholder, number 256, page 1547
    • Of course Professor Johnson and all the other professional economists who have searched the pages of Henry George understand that there is a chasmatical difference between confiscating land, and confiscating the increase in the value of land.1914, J. A. Demuth, “Professional Economists Versus Single Taxers”, in The Single Tax Review, volume 14, page 32

Origin of chasmatical

From Ancient Greek χασματικός (khasmatikós) + -al. By surface analysis, chasm + -atic + -al.

Questions about chasmatical

What does chasmatical mean?
Chasmatical means chasmal (of or like a chasm).
What part of speech is chasmatical?
Chasmatical is an adjective.

Words near chasmatical in the dictionary

  1. chasmanine
  2. chasmas
  3. chasmata
  4. chasmataspidid
  5. chasmataspidids
  6. chasmatical
  7. chasmed
  8. chasmic
  9. chasmically
  10. chasmlike
  11. chasmoendolith

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