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cavernous

adjective

1 cavernous

Being or suggesting a cavern.

Roget 252: depressed etc. v.; alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing; favaginous, faveolate, favose; scyphiform, scyphose; concave, hollow, ... show more

Roget 322: rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight; light etc. 320; cavernous, spongy etc. ... show more

2 cavernous

Filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood.

synonym: erectile.


Moby thesaurus: abysmal, abyssal, boat-shaped, boatlike, bottomless, bowl-shaped, bowllike, cavelike, commodious, concave, concaved, craterlike, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, deep as hell, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike ... show more.

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