Definitions for abyssal

abyssal a·byss·al

Spelling: [uh-bis-uh l]
IPA: /əˈbɪs əl/

Abyssal is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in abyssal (aablssy).

Definitions for abyssal

adjective

  1. of or like an abyss; immeasurable; unfathomable.
  2. of or relating to the biogeographic zone of the ocean bottom between the bathyal and hadal zones: from depths of approximately 13,000 to 21,000 feet (4000 to 6500 meters).

Origin of abyssal

From the Medieval Latin word abyssālis, dating back to 1685-95. See abyss, -al1

Examples for abyssal

The known deposits all point to shallow waters of epicontinental seas; no abyssal formations have been recognized.

No other mountains in the world are at once so continuously lofty and so near a coast which drops off to abyssal depths.

Core-takers had been dropped to get samplings of abyssal mud.

Such a rock is necessarily oceanic; but more than this, it is abyssal.

In their morphological characters they gradually approach the pelagic forms upwards and the abyssal downwards.

Some of the limestones are made of Foraminifera, together with Radiolaria, and indicate a subsidence to abyssal depths.

A third haunt of life is the floor of the Deep Sea, the abyssal area, which occupies more than a half of the surface of the globe.

When Dr. Morton said there were abyssal fish in the lagoon, I knew why they'd be there.

When the tormenting noise-beam struck again, the abyssal monster flung itself about crazily.

Dimya; recent in abyssal depths and fossil since the Jurassic.

Word Value for abyssal
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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