Synonyms for ABYSS
əˈbɪsabyss

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.5 / 11 votes

1. abyss

   Synonyms:
   gulf, profound, gorge, deep, pit, chasm, depth

   Antonyms:
   surface, cavity, depression, indentation

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.4 / 11 votes

1. abyss, abysmnoun

   a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)

   Synonyms:
   abysm, abyss

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1. • Chasm

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. abyssnoun

   Synonyms:
   gulf, gorge, great depth, bottomless gulf or pit

2. abyssnoun

   Synonyms:
   hell, limbo, purgatory

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1. List of paraphrases for "abyss":

   chasm, precipice, cesspool, gulf, gap, brink, divide, sinkhole

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1. List of known nicknames for "Abyss":

   Prince Justice, Chris Justice, Chris J. Parks, Chris Mitchell, The Original Terminator, Chris Park, Mr. Joseph Park, Esq., Abismo, Cleage, King of Pain

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1. Thomas Huxley:

   Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

2. Lewis Mumford:

   By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

3. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov:

   The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

4. Justin Forsyth:

   With each day we delay we lose more innocent lives and Europe slips further into an immoral abyss, right now, people desperately seeking a better life are drowning in politics.

5. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   there has never been a moment in one's life when one might not have stumbled upon this strange reality: what am I doing, where am I so hurriedly running, what is my objective, this whole world is a rat race and I'm going no where, with out any goal, isn't it?. this thought comes to me very often. alas! what to do, don't know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. no sooner that I try, I'm again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs”