| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class II. Words Relating to Space | | Section II. Dimensions | | 2. Linear Dimensions |
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| 208. Depth. |
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| NOUN: | DEPTH; deepness &c. adj.; profundity, depression (concavity) [See Concavity].
PIT, shaft, hollow, well, crater; gulf [See Interval]; deep, abyss, bowels of the earth, bottomless pit, hell.
SOUNDINGS, depth of water, water, draft or draught, submersion; plummet, sound, probe; sounding-rod, - line; lead; bathometer, bathymeter, bathymetry; benthos; submarine, U-boat; depth bomb.
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| VERB: | BE DEEP &c. adj.; render deep &c. adj.; deepen.
SOUND, heave the lead, take soundings; dig (excavate) [See Concavity]; plunge [See Plunge].
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| ADJECTIVE: | DEEP, deep-seated, deep-bosomed; profound, sunk, buried; submerged [See Plunge]; subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterrene [obs.], subterraneous; underground.
knee-deep, ankle-deep.
BOTTOMLESS, soundless, fathomless; unfathomed, unfathomable; abysmal; deep as a well; bathycolpian or bathukolpic or bathukolpian; deep-sea, benthal, benthopelagic; bathymetric, bathymetrical; bathypelagic, bathysmal; down-reaching, yawning.
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| ADVERB: | OUT OF ONE’S DEPTH; beyond one’s depth; over head and ears.
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| QUOTATION: | Under the whelming tide Visit’st the bottom of the monstrous world.—Milton |
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