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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distance down or across |
| Synonyms: | base, bottom, declination, deepness, draft, drop, expanse, extent, fathomage, intensity, lower register, lowness, measure, measurement, pit, pitch, profoundness, profundity, remoteness, sounding |
| Antonyms: | height |
| Concept: | Depth. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
depth; deepness; profundity, depression (concavity)., hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; gulf; bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell., soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound, probe; sounding rod, sounding line; lead.
-verbs
be deep; render deep; deepen., plunge; sound, heave the lead, take soundings; dig (excavate).
-adjectives
deep, deep seated; profound, sunk, burried; submerged; subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterrene; underground., bottomless, soundless, fathomless; unfathomed, unfathomable; abysmal; deep as a well; bathycolpian; benthal, benthopelagic; downreaching, yawning., knee deep, ankle deep.
-adverbs
beyond one's depth, out of one's depth; over head and ears.
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| Antonyms: | shallowness |
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| Main Entry: | abyss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something very deep, usually a feature of land |
| Synonyms: | abysm, chasm, crevasse, depth, fissure, gorge, gulf, hole, pit, void |
| Main Entry: | dimensions/dimension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proportions; range |
| Synonyms: | admeasurement, ambit, amplitude, bigness, bulk, capacity, compass, depth, dimensionality, extension, extensity, extent, greatness, height, importance, largeness, length, magnitude, measure, measurement, reach, scale, scope, size, volume, width |
| Main Entry: | drop |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | steep decline; hole |
| Synonyms: | abyss, chasm, declivity, deepness, depth, descent, dip, fall, plunge, precipice, slope, tumble |
| Antonyms: | incline, mound, mountain, rise |
| Main Entry: | extreme |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ultimate; limit |
| Synonyms: | acme, apex, apogee, bitter end, boundary, ceiling, climax, consummation, crest, crown, culmination, depth, edge, end, excess, extremity, height, inordinancy, maximum, nadir, nth degree, peak, pinnacle, pole, termination, top, utmost, uttermost, zenith |
| Main Entry: | extremity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ultimate; limit |
| Synonyms: | acme, acuteness, adversity, apex, apogee, border, bound, boundary, brim, brink, butt, climax, consummation, crisis, depth, dire straits, disaster, edge, end, excess, extreme, extremes, frontier, height, last, margin, maximum, nadir, outside, pinnacle, plight, pole, remote, rim, setback, terminal, termination, terminus, tip, top, trouble, verge, vertex, zenith |
| Main Entry: | gauge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | measure, standard |
| Synonyms: | barometer, basis, benchmark, bore, capacity, check, criterion, degree, depth, example, exemplar, extent, guide, guideline, height, indicator, magnitude, mark, meter, model, norm, pattern, rule, sample, scale, scope, size, span, test, thickness, touchstone, type, width, yardstick |
| Antonyms: | estimate, guess |
| Main Entry: | gulf |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep, gaping hole |
| Synonyms: | abyss, breach, cave, cavity, chasm, cleft, crevasse, depth, depths, distance, expanse, gap, gulch, hiatus, hollow, opening, pit, ravine, rent, rift, separation, shaft, split, void, well, whirlpool |
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