adjective
cavernous
KAV-er-nuhs/ˈkævərnəs/
Resembling a large, hollow cave.
Their footsteps echo through the station's cavernous main hall.
Etymology
Originally meaning 'full of caverns,' the word developed the sense 'deeply hollowed out.' It applies the spacious hollowness of a cave to rooms and other enclosed spaces.
In context
all of this is a barn big and brooding cathedral-like and beyond all this the immense space of the fields that lie just beyond the house even in the huge cavernous sanctuary of the hayward
More examples
- The truck has a cavernous storage compartment.
- A small desk stands in the cavernous office.
- The flashlight reveals a cavernous opening in the rock.