chasmic

chasmic

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English chasm
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English chasmic

    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 […]

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