chasmal
adjEtymology From chasm + -al.
1
Of or like a chasm.
- He must be blind indeed who does not perceive the radical and chasmal difference between the truthful and the poetical modes of inculcation.1850, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Poetic Principle”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, volume III:
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:chasmal.
- Synonyms
- chasmic