cavernous
Other forms: cavernously
If something reminds you of a cave or cavern in size, shape, or feel, you can describe it with the adjective cavernous. Your cavernous basement is huge, damp, and dark, but fortunately there are no bats down there.
Cavernous, "cavern," and "cave" all come from the same Latin root word cavus, meaning hollow. Anything that's vast or deep can be described as cavernous, like your favorite professor's cavernous knowledge about the subject of 17th century literature. As a medical or anatomical term, cavernous refers to something that is porous, particularly when it's filled with tiny blood vessels.
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being or suggesting a cavern“vast cavernous chambers hollowed out of limestone”
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Synonyms:
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hollow
not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
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hollow
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filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
Vocabulary lists containing cavernous
In the Kingdom of Mangkon, twelve-year-old Sodsai Mudawan lies about her family's background so that she could have a chance at a bright future.
When twelve-year-old beach-loving Ohioan Eddie Gordon Holloway runs out of clean clothes, he must finally do his laundry in the basement, where suddenly, the lights go dark.
After Earth is destroyed by a comet, twelve-year-old Petra Peña wakes up on a new planet and discovers she is the only one who remembers Earth. She must use her stories and her wits to save humanity's legacy.
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