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cavity - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | cavity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sunken or decayed area |
| Synonyms: | armpit, atrium, basin, chamber, crater, decay, dent, depression, gap, hole, hollow, pit, pocket, sinus, vacuity, void, bursa, caries, socket |
| 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: | cave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hole in land formation |
| Synonyms: | cavern, cavity, den, grotto, hollow, pothole, rock shelter, subterrane, subterranean area |
| Notes: | cavern is more vague and rhetorical than cave; a cavern is a large cave |
| Main Entry: | chasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap, abyss |
| Synonyms: | alienation, arroyo, blank, breach, cavity, cleavage, cleft, crater, crevasse, fissure, flume, gorge, gulch, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, omission, opening, oversight, ravine, rent, rift, schism, skip, split, void, yawn, abysm, clough, clove, preterition |
| Antonyms: | closure, junction, juncture |
| Main Entry: | dent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, scrape, chip |
| Synonyms: | cavity, crater, cut, dimple, dint, dip, furrow, hollow, impression, incision, indentation, nick, notch, pit, score, scratch, sink, trough, con-cavity, crenel, embrasure, scallop |
| Antonyms: | bulge |
| Main Entry: | excavation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | site of digging; digging |
| Synonyms: | burrow, cavity, cut, cutting, dig, ditch, dugout, hole, hollow, mine, mining, pit, quarry, removal, shaft, trench, trough, blasting, disinterring, exhuming, scooping, shoveling, unearthing |
| Antonyms: | filling |
| Main Entry: | grotto |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cave |
| Synonyms: | cavern, cavity, chamber, den, hollow, antre, rock shelter, subterrane, underground chamber |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty or dented area |
| Synonyms: | basin, bottom, bowl, cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, channel, cleft, concavity, crater, cup, dale, den, depression, dimple, dip, dish, excavation, groove, gulf, hole, indentation, notch, pit, pocket, sag, scoop, trough, vacuity, valley, void, sinkage, sinkhole, socket |
| Antonyms: | solid |
| Main Entry: | mold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | form, pattern |
| Synonyms: | cast, cavity, character, class, depression, description, design, die, frame, image, impression, kind, lot, matrix, model, nature, shape, sort, stamp, type, womb |
| Main Entry: | nook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corner, cubbyhole |
| Synonyms: | alcove, cavity, compartment, cranny, crevice, den, hideout, hole, niche, opening, quoin, recess, retreat, byplace, inglenook |
| Main Entry: | orifice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening |
| Synonyms: | aperture, cavity, crack, hole, mouth, outlet, slit, spout, vent, window |
| Main Entry: | pockmark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pitlike scar |
| Synonyms: | blemish, cavity, crater, dent, dimple, pimple, welt, zit |
| Main Entry: | pothole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chuckhole |
| Synonyms: | cavity, crater, depression, dip, fracture, gap, hole, pit, pocket, rut, split |
| Main Entry: | void |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness, want |
| Synonyms: | blank, cavity, gap, hole, hollow, lack, nothingness, nullity, opening, space, vacuity, vacuum, blankness, nihility |
| Antonyms: | fullness |
| Main Entry: | tooth decay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decay of a tooth |
| Synonyms: | cavity, caries, cariosity, dental caries, dental cavity |
| Main Entry: | chamber |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small compartment, room |
| Synonyms: | alcove, apartment, bedroom, box, case, cavity, cell, chest, container, cubicle, enclosure, flat, hall, hollow, lodging, pocket, room, antechamber, bedchamber, socket |
| Main Entry: | hole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening in a solid object |
| Synonyms: | aperture, breach, break, burrow, cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, chasm, chink, cistern, cleft, covert, crack, cranny, crater, cut, den, dent, depression, dimple, dip, excavation, fissure, fracture, gap, gash, gorge, hollow, hovel, lacuna, lair, leak, mouth, nest, niche, nick, notch, orifice, outlet, passage, peephole, pit, pocket, pockmark, puncture, rent, retreat, scoop, shaft, shelter, space, split, tear, tunnel, vacuity, vent, void, window, eyelet, foramen, keyhole, perforation |
| Antonyms: | closure, solid |
| Main Entry: | mouth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening |
| Synonyms: | aperture, beak, box, cavity, clam, crevice, door, entrance, estuary, funnel, gate, harbor, inlet, mush*, orifice, portal, rim, trap*, yap*, chops, delta, embouchement, firth, fly trap, gills, gob, jaws, kisser, lips |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap, hole |
| Synonyms: | aperture, breach, break, cavity, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, door, fissure, hatch, interstice, mouth, orifice, outlet, recess, rent, rift, rupture, scuttle, slit, slot, space, split, spout, tear, vent, window, discontinuity, perforation |
| Antonyms: | closure, solid, closing |
| Main Entry: | recess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | niche, corner |
| Synonyms: | alcove, ambush, angle, bay, break, cavity, cell, closet, cove, cranny, crypt, cubicle, dent, depression, fork, heart, hole, hollow, indentation, mouth, nook, opening, retreat, slot, apse, carrel, crutch, depths, embrasure, hiding place, oriel, penetralia, reaches, secret place, socket |
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