chasmic

English

Etymology

From chasm +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æzmɪk

Adjective

chasmic (comparative more chasmic, superlative most chasmic)

1. Like a chasm.
   • 1997, Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, Christian Discourses:

     No, just as there was a chasmic abyss between that rich man in hell and Lazarus in Abraham's bosom […]

   • 2003, Jack Kugelmass, Key texts in American Jewish culture:

     The once chasmic divide based on a socially and to some degree mutually constructed sense of racial difference was transforming into something different […]

Synonyms

• chasmal

Derived terms

• chasmically
• isochasmic