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chasmy

chasmy adjective: of, pertaining to, or resembling a chasm.

Adjective

chasmy (comparative more chasmy, superlative most chasmy)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a chasm.
    • They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed, / Rocked on the dizzy larch's narrow tread; […]1791–1792 (date written; published 1793), William Wordsworth, “[Juvenile Pieces.] Extracts from Descriptive Sketches Taken during a Pedestrian Tour in the Alps.”, in Poems […], volume I, London: […]...
    • North-eastward, at the extreme right, or Elbe point of it, where Grüne and the Austrians stand, it has grown so chasmy, we judge that Grüne can neither advance nor be advanced upon: so we leave him standing there,—which he did all day, in a purely meditative posture.1864, Thomas Carlyle, “Battle of Kesselsdorf”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume IV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XV, pages 213–214

Forms of chasmy

comparativemore chasmy
superlativemost chasmy

Origin of chasmy

From chasm + -y.

Questions about chasmy

What does chasmy mean?
Chasmy means of, pertaining to, or resembling a chasm.
What part of speech is chasmy?
Chasmy is an adjective.

Words near chasmy in the dictionary

  1. chasmosaur
  2. chasmosaurine
  3. chasmosaurines
  4. chasmous
  5. chasms
  6. chasmy
  7. Chason
  8. Chasons
  9. Chassagne-Montrachet
  10. Chassagne-Montrachets
  11. chasse

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