Cavernous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Filled with caverns.
  • adj. Resembling a cavern, as in depth, vastness, or effect: a cavernous yawn; cavernous echoes.
  • adj. Anatomy Filled with cavities or hollow areas; porous.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. resembling a cavern; vast
  • adj. having many caverns
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.
  • adj. Filled with small cavities or cells.
  • adj. Having a sound caused by a cavity.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Formed into a cavern or caverns; containing caverns; hence, deeply hollowed out; deep-set: as, cavernous mountains or rocks; cavernous eyes.
  • Filled with small cavities, as a sponge; reticulated; honeycombed.
  • the carotid groove (which see, under carotid).
  • In petrography, porous or vesicular: applied to rocks some of whose minerals have been removed by solution.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. being or suggesting a cavern
  • adj. filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
    • Equivalent
    hollow    expansive   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hollow   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    windowless    subterranean    dank    high-ceilinged    spacious   
     
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