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  • adjective Like a chasm.

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chasm +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • Second, women compete at the highest level and are a big star focus, which represents a chasmic sic difference with other pro sports.

    Profile: Bringing Tennis to the World Anuj Gangahar 2010

  • But that final paragraph also alludes to the chasmic fissure between Home Office civil servants and New Labour's political advisers.

    John Reid on Collision Course with the Guardian 2007

  • Everyone who has grown up pronouncing his aitches and in a house with a bathroom and one servant is likely to have grown up with these feelings; hence the chasmic, impassable quality of class-distinctions in the West.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • Coleridge was in fact only two years older than she was, but the gap between them was chasmic.

    Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001

  • A coldness, an emptiness, chasmic and desolately lonely.

    Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997

  • None the less, on the off-chance that one of the thugs might be sufficiently enlightened to make the chasmic mental leap required to realize that a spastic might also be a brilliant physicist, Geoffrey thought it wise to get out.

    Gridlock Elton, Ben 1991

  • Everyone who has grown up pronouncing his aitches and in a house with a bathroom and one servant is likely to have grown up with these feelings; hence the chasmic, impassable quality of class-distinctions in the West.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

  • I was so destitute, and so despairing over the failure of my mystery novel that, well, let's just say, my confidence level, what little there was, had sunk to an all-time chasmic low.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rex Pickett 2012

  • The sad fact is that the revenue discrepancy between the mainstream Hollywood product and indie or foreign films has never been so chasmic.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • The sad fact is that the revenue discrepancy between the mainstream Hollywood product and indie or foreign films has never been so chasmic.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

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