cavernous (redirected from cavernously)

cav·ern·ous  (kvr-ns)

adj.

1. Filled with caverns.

2. Resembling a cavern, as in depth, vastness, or effect: a cavernous yawn; cavernous echoes.

3. Anatomy Filled with cavities or hollow areas; porous.

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cavern·ous·ly adv.

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cavernous [ˈkævənəs]

adj

1. suggestive of a cavern in vastness, darkness, etc. cavernous hungry eyes

2. filled with small cavities; porous

3. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) (of rocks) containing caverns or cavities

cavernously  adv

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	cavernous - being or suggesting a cavern; "vast cavernous chambers hollowed out of limestone" hollow - not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year"
	2.	cavernous - filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood; "erectile tissue"; "the penis is an erectile organ" erectile physiology - the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms expansive - able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion; "Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire"

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cavernous

adjective vast, wide, huge, enormous, extensive, immense, spacious, expansive, capacious, commodious the cavernous interior of the gallery

Translations

cavernous [ˈkævənəs] ADJ [eyes, cheeks] → hundido; [pit, darkness] → cavernoso

cavernous [ˈkævə^rnəs] adj [room, building] → immense

cavernous

adj

cellar, pit, darkness → tief; hole → gähnend; mouth → riesig; eyes → tief liegend; cheeks → eingefallen, hohl; voice → hohl (tönend); yawn → herzhaft, breit

mountain etc → höhlenreich, voller Höhlen

cavernous [ˈkævənəs] adj (eyes, cheeks) → incavato/a, infossato/a; (pit) → ampio/a e profondo/a; (darkness) → fitto/a