abyss
IPA: ʌbˈɪs
noun
- Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
- (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
- Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
- Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
- (with article) An impending catastrophic happening.
- (heraldry) The center of an escutcheon.
- (oceanography) The abyssal zone.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
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Examples of "abyss" in Sentences
- We are now on the edge of the abyss.
- The soul enters into the lowest abyss.
- It is the lowest rank of demon in the Abyss.
- Cambodia was on the slippery slope to the abyss.
- Gaze into the abyss from the comfort of your own h ...
- The Abyss is something of an enigma throughout the entire series.
- Ghasts die in the light but can endure the twilight of the abyss.
- At the sounding of the fifth trumpet locusts ascend from the abyss.
- Knowledge has plunged into the abyss of decrepitude and destitution.
- The book begins with the yugoloth Inthracis, a denizen of the Abyss.
- Babau are the cunning and sneaky but powerful assassins of the Abyss.
- Drawing them back from the abyss is the real challenge that confronts us.
- But staying in the real estate abyss is like throwing money down a rat hole.
- I know the abyss is there, but the picket fence stops me stumbling in by accident.
- Thu 10/29/09 3: 29 PM the abyss is the most UNDERRATED of his movies. its fabulous but no one ever remembers it
- Now, if the abyss is scary, what is scarier, what generates it, what you will find in it, or what comes from it?
- His body language and choice of words—he used the word "abyss" four times—betrayed a man humbled by a difficult struggle.
- And don't you think the fear of falling back down into that abyss is one of the primary, albeit ineffective, motivators of humankind?
- It's a bumpy, slow ride, and the visitor won't forget the final stretch, when the distance between the bus 'wheels and a great, yawning abyss is a matter of inches.
- However, you cannot invariably sell that to the middle-class or lower-class Americans, and so the types instead, write about how all we need to do to get out of the abyss is become a more educated society.