Antonyms for abyss
əˈbɪsabyss

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1. abyss

   Antonyms:
   surface, cavity, depression, indentation

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

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1. • Chasm

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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

How to use abyss in a sentence?

1. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

2. Matt Rimmer:

   When it comes to preventing fatbergs, everyone has a role to play, yes a lot of the fat comes from food outlets but the wipes and sanitary items are far more likely to be from domestic properties. The sewers are not an abyss for household rubbish and our message to everyone is clear – please ‘Bin it – don’t block it’.

3. Chief Executive Lam:

   Can we bear to push it into the abyss and see it smashed to pieces?

4. 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”

5. Luise Neumann-Cosel:

   We are on course for a catastrophe, we are in a car and we are driving at 250 km per hour toward an abyss... We need fewer cars.

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