Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

abysmic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: abysmic
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Abysmal; like an abyss.

Example Sentences

"These books will fill, and well fill, certain stretches of life […] But in old or nervous or solemnest or dying hours, when one needs the impalpably soothing and vitalizing influences of abysmic Nature, or its affinities in literature or human society, and the soul resents the keenest mere intellection, they will not be sought for."
"The spacial depths between the glittering threads of the web and the chef seemed abysmic and prodigious. He might have belonged to another realm."

Etymology

From abysm + -ic.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: abysm

Inflected Forms

more abysmic (comparative) most abysmic (superlative)

Questions

What does abysmic mean?: Abysmal; like an abyss.
Where does abysmic come from?: From abysm + -ic.

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