Entry Word: abyss

Function: noun

Meaning: an immeasurable depth or space <looking down at the dark ocean from the shipʼs rail, Malcolm felt as though he was staring into an abyss>

Synonyms chasm, gulf

Related Words cleft, crevasse, crevice, fissure; cavern, hole, hollow, pit; breadth, expanse, extent, reach, spread, stretch; emptiness, nothingness, vacuity, vacuum, void