chasmy
English
Etymology
chasm + -y
Adjective
chasmy (comparative more chasmy, superlative most chasmy)
- Of or pertaining to a chasm; abounding in chasms.
- Wordsworth
- They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed.
- 1858 Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia
- North-eastward, at the extreme right, or Elbe point of it, where Griine and the Austrians stand, it has grown so chasmy, we judge that Griine can neither advance nor be advanced upon: so we leave him standing there, — which he did all day[.]
- Wordsworth
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chasmy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)