abysm

The word “abysm” has 2 syllables: a-bysm

It's pronounced as /əˈbɪzəm/


What is synonym and antonym for abysm?

In the thesaurus, “abysm” has 29 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for abysm along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for abysm

  • abyss
  • black hole
  • bottomless pit
  • breadth
  • cavern
  • chasm
  • cleft
  • crevasse
  • crevice
  • deep
  • depth
  • emptiness
  • expanse
  • extent
  • fissure
  • gorge
  • gulf
  • hole
  • hollow
  • nothingness
  • ocean
  • pit
  • reach
  • spread
  • stretch
  • vacancy
  • vacuity
  • vacuum
  • void

Meanings of abysm

  • noun
    1. Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos.
    2. An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole.

Example Sentences

  • The explorers stood at the edge of the cavern, peering into the dark abysm below.
  • Her depression felt like an endless abysm from which she couldn't escape.
  • The novel describes a descent into the moral abysm of its main character.
  • He felt a deep abysm of loneliness after his friends moved away.
  • The abysm of time separates us from the ancient civilizations.

On this page you'll find 29 synonyms or another words to abysm, such as: abyss, black hole, bottomless pit, breadth, cavern, chasm, cleft.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • beat
  • below par
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  • from hunger
  • game
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  • hateful
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  • ignoble
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  • ineffective
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  • junky
  • kill
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  • lace
  • lacerate
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  • lambast
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  • lash
  • lesser
  • lick
  • limping
  • loathsome
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  • low
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • maim
  • mangle
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  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • murder
  • mutilate
  • nasty
  • niggardly
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  • pained
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  • paralyze
  • paste
  • pathetic
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  • phoney
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  • poor
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  • punch
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  • ratty
  • reprehensible
  • reproachable
  • reptilian
  • repugnant
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  • rotten
  • rubbishy
  • scabby
  • scanty
  • scar
  • scummy
  • scurrilous
  • scurvy
  • second-rate
  • shabby
  • sham
  • shameful
  • shoddy
  • short
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • slap
  • sleazy
  • smack
  • smash
  • sneaking
  • sock
  • sordid
  • sore
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  • sour
  • spank
  • spare
  • squalid
  • stiff
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • swat
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  • terrible
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  • torment
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  • trashy
  • unacceptable
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  • under par
  • unethical
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  • unprincipled
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  • unscrupulous
  • unspeakable
  • unsuitable
  • useless
  • valueless
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wack
  • wallop
  • wanting
  • weak
  • whack
  • whip
  • wing
  • worthless
  • wound
  • wretched
  • wrong

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ill

  • Cimmerian
  • a wreck
  • abominable
  • abomination
  • abuse
  • abusively
  • abysmal
  • accident
  • achy
  • acrimonious
  • adverse
  • adversity
  • affection
  • afflicted
  • affliction
  • aggressively
  • ail
  • ailing
  • ailment
  • airsick
  • anathema
  • antagonistic
  • assertively
  • atrocious
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • attack
  • awful
  • bad
  • badness
  • baleful
  • balefulness
  • baneful
  • bastard
  • below par
  • black
  • bleak
  • blow
  • body blow
  • bout
  • brutal
  • brutally
  • brutishly
  • bug
  • bum
  • bummed
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • by no means
  • calamity
  • callously
  • cancer
  • canker
  • cantankerous
  • carsick
  • casualty
  • cataclysm
  • catastrophe
  • challenged
  • cheerless
  • cheesy
  • chill
  • circumstance
  • cloudy
  • coarse
  • cold
  • cold-bloodedly
  • comfortless
  • common
  • complaint
  • complication
  • condition
  • contagion
  • contagious
  • contagious disease
  • contagium
  • corruption
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • cross
  • cruddy
  • cruelty
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • curse
  • cut-rate
  • damage
  • damaging
  • damnable
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • darkening
  • darkness
  • deadly
  • debauchery
  • debilitated
  • debility
  • decay
  • decidedly
  • decrepit
  • decrepitude
  • defeat
  • defective
  • deficient
  • degeneracy
  • deleterious
  • deplorable
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • destiny
  • destruction
  • destructive
  • determinedly
  • detestable
  • detrimental
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • diabolism
  • dim
  • dire
  • direful
  • disabled
  • disappointment
  • disaster
  • disastrous
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • disease
  • diseased
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • disorder
  • disordered
  • disrespectful
  • dissatisfactory
  • distemper
  • distemperature
  • distress
  • disturbing
  • dizzy
  • doom
  • doomy
  • down
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  • dreadful
  • drear
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  • egregious
  • elegiac
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  • enormity
  • epidemic
  • evil
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  • failure
  • fake
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  • faulty
  • feeble
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  • feeling awful
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  • fever
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  • firmly
  • fit
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  • from hunger
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  • got the bug
  • gray
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  • halt
  • hard
  • hard-heartedly
  • hardly
  • hardship
  • harm
  • harmful
  • harsh
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  • hateful
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  • heinousness
  • hopeless
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • hostile
  • hurt
  • hurtful
  • hypochondriac
  • hypochondriacal
  • ill-boding
  • ill-fated
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-starred
  • illness
  • immorality
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • impertinent
  • inadequate
  • inauspicious
  • incapacitated
  • indecency
  • indisposed
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  • infection
  • infectious
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  • inferior
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  • inhumanely
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  • iniquity
  • injurious
  • injury
  • insensately
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  • insufficient
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  • junky
  • killer
  • knock
  • lacking
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  • lame
  • lameness
  • lesser
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  • light-headed
  • lonely
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  • lot
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  • malady
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  • malevolent
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  • matter
  • meager
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  • menacing
  • mercilessly
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  • murky
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  • no
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  • nothing
  • nothing doing
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  • obdurately
  • odious
  • off
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  • on no account
  • on sick list
  • oppressively
  • out of sorts
  • pain
  • paltry
  • parlous
  • pathetic
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • perilous
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  • perversion
  • pervertedness
  • pest
  • pestiferous
  • pestilence
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pip
  • pitilessly
  • plague
  • plutonian
  • poisonous
  • poor
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  • portentous
  • portion
  • prejudicial
  • punk
  • qualmish
  • queasy
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  • queer
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  • reprehensible
  • resolutely
  • risky
  • rot
  • rotten
  • roughly
  • rubbishy
  • ruinous
  • run down
  • run-down
  • running a temperature
  • ruthlessly
  • satanism
  • saturnine
  • savagely
  • scanty
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  • scurrility
  • scurrilous
  • scurrilousness
  • seasick
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • sepulchral
  • setback
  • severely
  • shabby
  • shaky
  • sham
  • shoddy
  • short
  • sick
  • sick as a dog
  • sickened
  • sickish
  • sickliness
  • sickly
  • sickness
  • sin
  • sinfulness
  • sinister
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrow
  • sour
  • spare
  • spell
  • squalor
  • squeamish
  • star-crossed
  • sternly
  • stiffly
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • strongly
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • suffering
  • sullen
  • sunless
  • surly
  • symptomatic
  • syndrome
  • taboo
  • tabu
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • terrible
  • threatening
  • toughly
  • tragedy
  • trashy
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • troubled
  • tyrannically
  • unacceptable
  • uncharitably
  • under par
  • under the weather
  • unfavorable
  • unfeelingly
  • unfortunate
  • unfriendly
  • ungracious
  • unhappiness
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthiness
  • unhealthy
  • unkind
  • unlucky
  • unmercifully
  • unpleasantness
  • unpromising
  • unpropitious
  • unsafe
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsettled
  • unsound
  • unsoundness
  • unsparingly
  • unspeakable
  • unwell
  • unwellness
  • unwholesome
  • upset
  • useless
  • valueless
  • venomous
  • viciously
  • vile
  • vileness
  • villainous
  • villainy
  • wack
  • wanting
  • weak
  • weakly
  • weakness
  • wicked
  • wickedness
  • woe
  • woozy
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

badly

  • a lot
  • abominably
  • absolutely
  • abundantly
  • abysmally
  • achingly
  • acutely
  • almighty
  • altogether
  • amazingly
  • appreciably
  • archly
  • as all get-out
  • astonishingly
  • astronomically
  • atrociously
  • awful
  • awfully
  • awkwardly
  • bad
  • beastly
  • blisteringly
  • blunderingly
  • bone
  • carelessly
  • clumsily
  • colossally
  • completely
  • considerably
  • corking
  • cracking
  • criminally
  • crudely
  • damn
  • damnably
  • damned
  • dang
  • deadly
  • deeply
  • defectively
  • deficiently
  • deplorably
  • desperately
  • detestably
  • disastrously
  • discernibly
  • downright
  • dreadfully
  • egregiously
  • eminently
  • enormously
  • entirely
  • erroneously
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  • exceeding
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  • exceptionally
  • excessively
  • execrably
  • extensively
  • extra
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  • fabulously
  • fantastically
  • far
  • faultily
  • feebly
  • fiercely
  • filthy
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  • flat-out
  • frightfully
  • full
  • fully
  • good and
  • grandly
  • gravely
  • greatly
  • grossly
  • haphazardly
  • hard
  • heavily
  • highly
  • horrendously
  • horribly
  • horrifically
  • hugely
  • immensely
  • imperfectly
  • improperly
  • inadequately
  • inappropriately
  • incompetently
  • incorrectly
  • incredibly
  • indecently
  • ineffectively
  • ineptly
  • inferiorly
  • insufficiently
  • intensely
  • intolerably
  • jolly
  • lousily
  • majorly
  • maladroitly
  • markedly
  • meagerly
  • meanly
  • mightily
  • mighty
  • miserably
  • monstrous
  • monstrously
  • monumentally
  • mortally
  • most
  • much
  • naughtily
  • negligently
  • niggardly
  • notably
  • noticeably
  • obscenely
  • obviously
  • odiously
  • overmuch
  • painfully
  • palpably
  • particularly
  • passing
  • plainly
  • plentifully
  • poorly
  • positively
  • profoundly
  • purely
  • radically
  • rattling
  • real
  • really
  • remarkably
  • reprehensibly
  • right
  • roaring
  • roaringly
  • rottenly
  • roughly
  • scantily
  • scantly
  • seriously
  • severely
  • shabbily
  • shamefully
  • shoddily
  • significantly
  • skimpily
  • sleazily
  • so
  • sore
  • sorely
  • spanking
  • sparely
  • specially
  • staggeringly
  • stingily
  • stinking
  • stupidly
  • substantially
  • such
  • super
  • supremely
  • surpassingly
  • terribly
  • that
  • thoroughly
  • thumping
  • too
  • totally
  • trashily
  • unacceptably
  • unbearably
  • unco
  • uncommonly
  • unethically
  • unfavorably
  • unfortunately
  • unsatisfactorily
  • unskillfully
  • unspeakably
  • unsuccessfully
  • unsuitably
  • utterly
  • vastly
  • very
  • vilely
  • visibly
  • vitally
  • vulgarly
  • way
  • weakly
  • whacking
  • wholly
  • wicked
  • wickedly
  • wildly
  • wretchedly
  • wrong
  • wrongly

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