Abyss

//əˈbɪs//

Synonyms for "abyss" (117 found)

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Closest matches (24)

Noun(2 words)
abysmbottomless pit

Strong matches (35)

Noun(1 words)
fess point

Related words (58)

Noun(1 words)
gulf

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Related terms

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at location

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dbpedia genre

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derived

9 entries

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related to

27 entries

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Translations

192 translations across 64 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • humnerë noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Ancient Greek

4 entries
  • ἄβυσσος noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • ἄβυσσος noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • ἄβυσσος noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • Ἄβῠσσος noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Arabic

3 entries
  • هَاوِيَة noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • هَاوِيَة noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • هُوَّة noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Armenian

1 entries
  • անդունդ noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Bashkir

1 entries
  • упҡын noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Belarusian

4 entries
  • бе́здань noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • бяздо́нне noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • прадонне noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • про́рва noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Bengali

1 entries
  • হাবিয়া noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • бе́здна noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • бе́здна noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • про́паст noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • про́паст noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Catalan

2 entries
  • abisme noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • abisme noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 截然不同 noun (difference)
  • 深淵 /深渊 noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • 深淵 /深渊 noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • 深淵 /深渊 noun (moral depravity, vast intellectual or moral depth)

Czech

3 entries
  • hlubina noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • propast noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • propast noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Danish

2 entries
  • afgrund noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • afgrund noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Dutch

4 entries
  • afgrond noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • afgrond noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • afgrond noun (moral depravity, vast intellectual or moral depth)
  • kloof noun (moral depravity, vast intellectual or moral depth)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • abismo noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • abismo noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Estonian

1 entries
  • kuristik noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Finnish

4 entries
  • horna noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • kauheus noun (impending catastrophe)
  • kuilu noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • kuilu noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

French

4 entries
  • abysse noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • abîme noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • abîme noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • abîme noun (anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound)

Galician

1 entries
  • abismo noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Georgian

3 entries
  • უფსკრული noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • უფსკრული noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • ქვესკნელი noun (hell, bottomless pit)

German

4 entries
  • Abgrund noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • Abgrund noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • Abgrund noun (moral depravity, vast intellectual or moral depth)
  • Hölle noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Gothic

2 entries
  • 𐌰𐍆𐌲𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹𐌸𐌰 noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • 𐌰𐍆𐌲𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹𐌸𐌰 noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Greek

4 entries
  • άβυσσος noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • άβυσσος noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • άβυσσος noun (anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound)
  • άβυσσος noun (moral depravity, vast intellectual or moral depth)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • תהום noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Hindi

4 entries
  • अतल noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • अथाह noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • पाताल noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • रसातल noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • szakadék noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Igbo

1 entries
  • mgbùlùgùdù noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Indonesian

2 entries
  • jurang tanpa dasar noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • neraka noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Interlingua

2 entries
  • abysmo noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • abysso noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Irish

1 entries
  • aibhéis noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Italian

3 entries
  • abisso noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • abisso noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • abisso noun (moral depravity, vast intellectual or moral depth)

Japanese

3 entries
  • 深淵 noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • 深淵 noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • 淵 noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • шыңырау noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Korean

1 entries
  • 심연 noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Latin

4 entries
  • abyssus noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • abyssus noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • barāthrum noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • profundum noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Latvian

1 entries
  • bezdibenis noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Lithuanian

3 entries
  • bedugnė noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • bedùgnė noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • prarajà noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • амбис noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • бездна noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Maore Comorian

1 entries
  • gumbo noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Māori

4 entries
  • poka tōrere noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • poka tōrere noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • tomoau noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • tomoau noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Navajo

1 entries
  • doo nihonítʼį́ʼgóó ahoodzą́ noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Norwegian

2 entries
  • avgrunn noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • avgrunn noun (moral depravity, vast intellectual or moral depth)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • avgrunn noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Occitan

2 entries
  • abisme noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • abisme noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Old English

2 entries
  • neowolnes noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • neowolnes noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Old Irish

1 entries
  • abis noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • دریڭلك noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Persian

2 entries
  • مغاک noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • مغاک noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Polish

4 entries
  • czeluść noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • otchłań noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • otchłań noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • otchłań noun (moral depravity, vast intellectual or moral depth)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • abismo noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • abismo noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • abismo noun (moral depravity, vast intellectual or moral depth)
  • abisso noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Quechua

1 entries
  • thuñi noun (impending catastrophe)

Romanian

4 entries
  • abis noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • abis noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • adânc noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • adâncime noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Russian

4 entries
  • бе́здна noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • бе́здна noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • бе́здна noun (moral depravity, vast intellectual or moral depth)
  • про́пасть noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • bèzdan noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • bèzdan noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • pònor noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • бѐздан noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Slovak

1 entries
  • priepasť noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Slovene

2 entries
  • brezno noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • brezno noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Somali

1 entries
  • qar noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Spanish

3 entries
  • abismo noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • abismo noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • sima noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Swahili

2 entries
  • kuzimu noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • shimo noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Swedish

4 entries
  • avgrund noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • avgrund noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • avgrund noun (moral depravity, vast intellectual or moral depth)
  • bråddjup noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Tamil

1 entries
  • பாதாளம் noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • бездна noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • безо́дня noun (hell, bottomless pit)
  • безо́дня noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)
  • прова́лля noun (hell, bottomless pit)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries
  • bjezdno noun (hell, bottomless pit)

West-Frisian

1 entries
  • ôfgrûn noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Yiddish

1 entries
  • תּהום noun (bottomless or unfathomed depth)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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One step further, and you will fall into an abyss.

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She was in an abyss of despair.

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Call him an abyss - how deep he is!

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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.

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