chasmal
Adjective

chasmal

  1. Of or like a chasm.
    • 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Poetic Principle ↗", 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.
Related terms
  • chasm
  • chasma
  • chasmatical (unattested; appears only in dictionaries)



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