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abyss - 16 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | abyss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something very deep, usually a feature of land |
| Synonyms: | chasm, crevasse, depth, fissure, gorge, gulf, hole, pit, void, abysm |
| Main Entry: | blank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty space |
| Synonyms: | abyss, cavity, chasm, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, interstice, interval, lacuna, nothingness, nullity, omission, opening, skip, tabula rasa, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, hollowness, nihility, preterition, pretermission, womb |
| Main Entry: | bottomless pit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extremely hopeless situation |
| Synonyms: | Hell, abyss, chasm, crevasse, fire and brimstone*, gulf, Hades, abysm, infernal regions |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crevice/crevasse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crack, gap |
| Synonyms: | abyss, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, cut, division, fissure, fracture, hole, interstice, opening, precipice, rent, rift, slit, split |
| Main Entry: | gorge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | valley |
| Synonyms: | abyss, arroyo, canyon, chasm, cleft, crevasse, fissure, flume, gap, glen, gulch, pass, ravine, clough, clove |
| Notes: | a canyon is a narrow chasm with steep cliff walls formed by running water; a gorge is a deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides formed by running water; a ravine is a deep narrow steep-sided valley formed by running water |
| Main Entry: | hell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place of the condemned; bad situation |
| Synonyms: | abyss, affliction, agony, anguish, bottomless pit*, difficulty, fire and brimstone*, grave, inferno, limbo, misery, nether world, nightmare, ordeal, pandemonium, perdition, pit, purgatory, suffering, torment, trial, underworld, wretchedness, Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, blazes, everlasting fire, hell-fire, infernal regions, lower world, place of torment |
| Antonyms: | heaven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perdition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | abyss, affliction, bottomless pit*, condemnation, damnation, fire and brimstone*, inferno, nether world, pit, punishment, purgatory, ruin, suffering, underworld, Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, everlasting fire, infernal regions, loss of the soul, lower world, place of torment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hole, cavity |
| Synonyms: | abyss, chasm, crater, dent, depression, dimple, excavation, grave, gulf, hell, hollow, indentation, mine, pockmark, pothole, puncture, shaft, tomb, trench, well, perforation |
| Antonyms: | mountain |
| Main Entry: | purgatory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | abyss, bottomless pit*, fire and brimstone*, limbo, nether world, perdition, pit, suffering, underworld, Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, everlasting fire, infernal regions, lower world, place of torment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ravine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap in earth's surface |
| Synonyms: | abyss, arroyo, break, canyon, chasm, crevasse, crevice, cut, defile, ditch, fissure, flume, gorge, gulch, gulf, gully, notch, pass, valley, wash, clove, coulee |
| Antonyms: | plain |
| Main Entry: | underworld |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal activity, element |
| Synonyms: | Cosa Nostra, Mafia, abyss, mob*, organized crime, racket*, riffraff*, syndicate, criminals, felonry, gangland, gangsters |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | well |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | water hole |
| Synonyms: | abyss, bore, chasm, depression, derivation, fountain, fountainhead, geyser, hole, inception, mine, mouth, origin, pit, pool, repository, reservoir, root, shaft, source, spa, spout, spring, wellspring, fount, springs, watering place |
| Main Entry: | crevasse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | precipice |
| Synonyms: | abyss, chasm, cleft, fissure, gap, hole |
| Main Entry: | crevice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crack |
| Synonyms: | abyss, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevasse, cut, division, fissure, fracture, gap, hole, interstice, opening, precipice, rent, rift, slit, split |
| Main Entry: | drop |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | steep decline; hole |
| Synonyms: | abyss, chasm, declivity, depth, descent, dip, fall, plunge, precipice, slope, tumble, deepness |
| Antonyms: | incline, mound, mountain, rise |
| Main Entry: | gulf |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep, gaping hole |
| Synonyms: | abyss, breach, cave, cavity, chasm, cleft, crevasse, depth, distance, expanse, gap, gulch, hiatus, hollow, opening, pit, ravine, rent, rift, separation, shaft, split, void, well, whirlpool, depths |
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