chasmal
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]chasmal (comparative more chasmal, superlative most chasmal)
- Of or like a chasm.
- Synonym: (rare) chasmatical
- 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Poetic Principle”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, volume III:
- He must be blind indeed who does not perceive the radical and chasmal difference between the truthful and the poetical modes of inculcation.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:chasmal.