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| 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: | 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: | aperture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hole |
| Synonyms: | breach, break, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cut, eye, fissure, gap, gash, interstice, opening, orifice, outlet, passage, puncture, rift, rupture, slash, slit, slot, space, vent, perforation, pinhole |
| 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: | cleavage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap |
| Synonyms: | break, chasm, cleft, divide, division, fracture, hole, rift, schism, separation, split, valley, discontinuity, severance |
| Main Entry: | cleft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, gap |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, breach, canyon, chasm, chink, cleavage, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fissure, fracture, gorge, gulch, opening, ravine, rent, rift, rime, schism, slit, clough, clove, rima, rimation |
| Antonyms: | closure, solid, closing |
| 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: | emptiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | void, bareness |
| Synonyms: | blank, chasm, desolation, destitution, exhaustion, gap, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, waste, blankness, depletedness, desertedness, hollowness, inanition |
| Antonyms: | capacity, fill, fullness |
| Main Entry: | gap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, breach |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, blank, caesura, canyon, chasm, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, defile, difference, disagreement, disparity, divergence, divide, division, fracture, gorge, gulch, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, inconsistency, interlude, intermission, interruption, interstice, interval, lacuna, lull, notch, opening, orifice, pause, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rupture, separation, slit, slot, space, vacuity, void, clove, discontinuity, interspace |
| Antonyms: | closure |
| 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: | gully |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ravine, ditch |
| Synonyms: | channel, chase, chasm, crevasse, culvert, gutter, notch, trench, watercourse |
| Main Entry: | hiatus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pause, interruption |
| Synonyms: | aperture, blank, breach, break, chasm, gap, interim, interval, lacuna, lapse, opening, rift, space, discontinuity |
| Antonyms: | continuation, continuity |
| Main Entry: | omission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something forgotten or excluded |
| Synonyms: | blank, breach, break, cancellation, carelessness, chasm, default, disregard, elimination, exclusion, failing, failure, forgetfulness, gap, hiatus, inadvertence, lack, lacuna, lapse, missing, neglect, overlook, oversight, prohibition, repudiation, skip, slighting, slip, withholding, cutting out, disregardance, elision, excluding, ignoring, inadvertency, leaving out, noninclusion, overlooking, passing over, preclusion, preterition, pretermission |
| Antonyms: | addition, inclusion, insertion, remembrance |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | breach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap |
| Synonyms: | aperture, break, chasm, chip, cleft, crack, fissure, hole, opening, rent, rift, rupture, slit, split, discontinuity |
| Antonyms: | bridge, connection |
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