chasmous

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Like a chasm or gulf.

   • There'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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Cavernous, like a vast hollow space.

   • 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 ...
   • [...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.

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