Cavernous
adjective
Very big and spacious, often in an impressive or intimidating manner.
He looked around his uncle's cavernous mansion, feeling completely dwarfed by the grandeur.
Often appears as...
- cavernous space
- cavernous room
adjective
Resembling a large underground chamber or cave.
The cavernous coal mines stretched for miles under the mountain.
Often appears as...
- cavernous caves
- cavernous underground
Usage tips
Technical, Geology
adjective
Having deep-set or cavernous physical features.
His cavernous eyes conveyed a depth of experience and wisdom.
Often appears as...
- cavernous eyes
- cavernous facial features
adjective
Very big and spacious, often in an impressive or intimidating manner.
He looked around his uncle's cavernous mansion, feeling completely dwarfed by the grandeur.
Often appears as...
- cavernous space
- cavernous room
adjective
Resembling a large underground chamber or cave.
The cavernous coal mines stretched for miles under the mountain.
Often appears as...
- cavernous caves
- cavernous underground
Usage tips
Technical, Geology
adjective
Having deep-set or cavernous physical features.
His cavernous eyes conveyed a depth of experience and wisdom.
Often appears as...
- cavernous eyes
- cavernous facial features
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Imposing Size
Used to describe spaces that make you feel small because they are so large.
The concert was held in a cavernous stadium, and the music echoed dramatically.
Pro Tip 2/3Impressive Surroundings
Often indicates the area is not just large, but also impressive or even overwhelming.
She stepped into the cavernous ballroom, impressed by its ornate decorations.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
'Cavernous' can imply emptiness or a lack of warmth in large spaces.
Despite its size, the cavernous room felt empty and unwelcoming.
Pro Tip 1/3Imposing Size
Used to describe spaces that make you feel small because they are so large.
The concert was held in a cavernous stadium, and the music echoed dramatically.
Pro Tip 2/3Impressive Surroundings
Often indicates the area is not just large, but also impressive or even overwhelming.
She stepped into the cavernous ballroom, impressed by its ornate decorations.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
'Cavernous' can imply emptiness or a lack of warmth in large spaces.
Despite its size, the cavernous room felt empty and unwelcoming.
Pro Tip 1/3Imposing Size
Used to describe spaces that make you feel small because they are so large.
The concert was held in a cavernous stadium, and the music echoed dramatically.
Pro Tip 2/3Impressive Surroundings
Often indicates the area is not just large, but also impressive or even overwhelming.
She stepped into the cavernous ballroom, impressed by its ornate decorations.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
'Cavernous' can imply emptiness or a lack of warmth in large spaces.
Despite its size, the cavernous room felt empty and unwelcoming.
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Dive into an ocean...
As plankton levels peak in the bay, the mantas swim closer and closer together in a unique behavior we call cyclone feeding. And as they swirl in tight formation, this multi-step column of mantas creates its own vortex, sucking in and delivering the plankton right into the mantas' cavernous mouths.
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What obligation do...
Well, it's like a vast, cavernous expanse, where there are people talking about sports, arguing about politics, yelling at each other, flirting, trying to get a job, all in the same place, with no walls, no divisions, and the owner gets paid more the louder the noise is.
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Could you survive the...
One of them is near. Because red light is quickly absorbed by seawater, most deep-sea inhabitants can’t see it. The dragonfish emits red light from organs by its eyes, using an invisible headlight to locate unsuspecting prey that its scoops into its cavernous jaw.
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How to disagree...
there's a big idea on the table -- that we support civil disobedience, that we favor free trade -- and one group of people who speaks in favor of that idea, and one against. My first debate in the cavernous auditorium of Canberra Girls Grammar School
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The otherworldly...
and acting as food for deep-sea animals. Largely thanks to that, abundant life forms exist in the darkness, adapting to a harsh reality where only the weird and wonderful can survive. Fish with cavernous mouths, spiky teeth jutting from their jaws,
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The most important thing...
A colleague asked me to guest teach his undergraduate geology class. I said, "Sure." But when I showed up, the lecture hall was cavernous and dark. As I tracked the history of the carbon cycle through geologic time to present day,
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Foraging Under the Ice PIPE...
I enter a world that's hidden by tons of ice for seven months of the year oh my god it's cavernous down here we've just tightened this just perfectly otherwise
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The Factory PIPE Think Like...
find themselves in a cavernous control room. Here the last artifact— the Node of Memory— is suspended within a force field and powering a supercomputer.
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The sound of things not...
I want you to listen to something do you hear it I hear it all the time it's the cavernous sound of things not being said
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ONE HOUR Of Amazing...
his cavernous jaws create a suction effect when he strikes he swallows his prey whole
Video examples
Dive into an ocean...
As plankton levels peak in the bay, the mantas swim closer and closer together in a unique behavior we call cyclone feeding. And as they swirl in tight formation, this multi-step column of mantas creates its own vortex, sucking in and delivering the plankton right into the mantas' cavernous mouths.
Video examples
What obligation do...
Well, it's like a vast, cavernous expanse, where there are people talking about sports, arguing about politics, yelling at each other, flirting, trying to get a job, all in the same place, with no walls, no divisions, and the owner gets paid more the louder the noise is.
Video examples
Could you survive the...
One of them is near. Because red light is quickly absorbed by seawater, most deep-sea inhabitants can’t see it. The dragonfish emits red light from organs by its eyes, using an invisible headlight to locate unsuspecting prey that its scoops into its cavernous jaw.
Video examples
How to disagree...
there's a big idea on the table -- that we support civil disobedience, that we favor free trade -- and one group of people who speaks in favor of that idea, and one against. My first debate in the cavernous auditorium of Canberra Girls Grammar School
Video examples
The otherworldly...
and acting as food for deep-sea animals. Largely thanks to that, abundant life forms exist in the darkness, adapting to a harsh reality where only the weird and wonderful can survive. Fish with cavernous mouths, spiky teeth jutting from their jaws,
Video examples
The most important thing...
A colleague asked me to guest teach his undergraduate geology class. I said, "Sure." But when I showed up, the lecture hall was cavernous and dark. As I tracked the history of the carbon cycle through geologic time to present day,
Video examples
Foraging Under the Ice PIPE...
I enter a world that's hidden by tons of ice for seven months of the year oh my god it's cavernous down here we've just tightened this just perfectly otherwise
Video examples
The Factory PIPE Think Like...
find themselves in a cavernous control room. Here the last artifact— the Node of Memory— is suspended within a force field and powering a supercomputer.
Video examples
The sound of things not...
I want you to listen to something do you hear it I hear it all the time it's the cavernous sound of things not being said
Video examples
ONE HOUR Of Amazing...
his cavernous jaws create a suction effect when he strikes he swallows his prey whole
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Quote examples
Tom Hodgkinson
British Writer
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.
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David Dobkin
American Director
Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.
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Esther Williams
American Actress
I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.
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Enya
Irish Musician
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
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Tom Hodgkinson
British Writer
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.
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David Dobkin
American Director
Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.
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Esther Williams
American Actress
I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.
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Enya
Irish Musician
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
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