abysm
IPA: ʌbˈɪzm
noun
- (archaic, poetic) Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos.
- (now chiefly literary) An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole.
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Examples of "abysm" in Sentences
- The article is currently abysmal.
- The rest of the pages are abysmal
- I read the lead and it was abysmal.
- The quality of education is abysmal.
- The operating characteristics are abysmal.
- I fixed the abysmal spelling in the article.
- The logic of the contribution is truly abysmal.
- Showing in the blue abysm vistas luminously strange,
- Although the acting was excellent, the script was abysmal.
- At the same time, the city's health statistics are abysmal.
- The English is abysmal in the article as there is a no sense of flow.
- It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up to the topmost pinnacle of posh.
- It is hard for women to resist the temptation of jewelries and women's jewelry box is like an abysm which is never full.
- For today's younger audience, the 1960s and 1970s are so far lost in the backward abysm of time that they're more or less Victorian.
- Even going through it online I learned that, while ‘abysm’ (a lovely word) has fallen out of use in favour of ‘abyss’, we tend to use ‘abysmal’ rather than ‘abyssal’.
- First, in refraining the power of the devil, like as it is said (Apocalypsis vicesimo), of the angel that bound the devil and sent him into abysm, that is the pit of hell; and Tobit, which saith that the angel Raphael bound the devil in the outerest desert.
- And all my austere nights of midnight oil, all the books I had read, all the wisdom I had gathered, went glimmering before the ape and tiger in me that crawled up from the abysm of my heredity, atavistic, competitive and brutal, lustful with strength and desire to outswine the swine.