Synonyms for cleft
Definitions
- n. 1
An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
The river flows through a cleft in the mountains.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- clefts → fissures, crevices, cracks, gaps…
Example sentences
- chasm The chasm is twenty feet wide and very deep.
- crevice My phone fell into the crevice between the two seats.
- segment Divide this line segment into twenty equal parts.
By length
- 3 letters
- gap1, jag
- 4 letters
- rent1, rift1, chap1, flaw1
- 5 letters
- break1, crack1, chasm2, chink1
- 6 letters
- breach1, cavity3, cranny2
- 7 letters
- opening3, segment2, rupture2, fissure2, crevice2
- 8 letters
- fracture2, aperture3, scissure
- 10 letters
- interstice
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (chasm2 = 2 syllables).