abyssal
IPA: ʌbˈɪsʌɫ
adjective
- (archaic) Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.
- (geography) Of or belonging to the ocean depths, especially below 2000 metres (6500 ft): abyssal zone.
- (geology) Pertaining to or occurring at excessive depths in the earth's crust; plutonic.
Examples of "abyssal" in Sentences
- The deepest parts of the ocean are known as the abyssal zone.
- 'When you catch him he'll be wearing a double-breasted suit. 'to its abyssal low.
- Fifteen months later, in the abyssal depths of the South Pacific, a whale rammed the ship head-on.
- 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’.
- They have explored the Sigsbee Escarpment, the long cliff at the edge of the abyssal plain; they've poked holes in the Mississippi Fold Belt and the Perdido Fan Fold Belt.
- This indulgence, especially so on the part of an ex-president, is something of a mephitis, an abyssal seeking of ever lower depths and ever more perverse rhetorical indulgences.
- In terms of HIV/AIDS, the gap is so abyssal that it's hard to provide detailed data, but the fact is that there are only five million people on treatment today when 15 million need to be on treatment.
- And then to have the opportunity to go to the next step and to see what that sperm whale is doing in its abyssal world, a mile deep into the ocean, when we couldn't possibly be with it any other way than with the Crittercam [the underwater camera system we developed].
- While neither of these fish and jellies - and there are far too many to name here - are monsters in size, there is something called abyssal gigantism, the tendency for other forms of extremely deep-dwelling organisms to not only be odd, strange, bizarre and darned creepy but also - yes, you guessed it - HUGE. via)