chasmal

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chasm +‎ -al

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chasmal (comparative more chasmal, superlative most chasmal)

  1. 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.

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