gaping

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: gap=ing

THESAURUS

gaping

abysmal, abyssal, agape, aghast, agog, ajar, all agog, amazed, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awaiting, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched, bottomless, breathless, captivated, cavernous, certain, chinky, cleft, cloven, confident, confounded, cracked, cut, deep as hell, dehiscence, dehiscent, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, eager, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, expectant, expecting, fascinated, fathomless, fissured, fissury, flabbergasted, forearmed, forestalling, forewarned, gape, gappy, gauping, gazing, hopeful, hypnotized, in anticipation, in awe, in awe of, in expectation, looking for, looking forward to, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, not surprised, open-eyed, openmouthed, optimistic, oscitancy, oscitant, oscitation, overwhelmed, pandiculation, plumbless, plunging, popeyed, prepared, puzzled, rapt in wonder, ready, rent, rift, rimose, rimulose, ringent, sanguine, slack-jawed, slit, soundless, spellbound, split, staggered, staring, stupefied, sure, surprised, the gapes, thunderstruck, under a charm, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, unsurprised, waiting, waiting for, watching for, wide-eyed, without bottom, wonder-struck, wondering, yawn, yawning

ROGET THESAURUS

gaping

Opening

N opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, way, path, thoroughfare, channel, passage, passageway, tube, pipe, water pipe, air pipe, vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula, adjutage, ajutage, ostium, smokestack, chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main, mine, pit, adit, shaft, gallery, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.

Expectation

N expectation, expectance, expectancy, anticipation, reckoning, calculation, foresight, contemplation, prospection, lookout, prospect, perspective, horizon, vista, destiny, suspense, waiting, abeyance, curiosity, anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine expectation, torment of Tantalus, hope, trust, auspices, assurance, confidence, presumption, reliance, expectant, expecting, in expectation, on the watch, open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation, agape, gaping, all agog, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation, aux aguets, ready, curious, looking forward to, expected, long expected, foreseen, in prospect, prospective, in one's eye, in one's view, in the horizon, on the horizon, just over the horizon, just around the corner, around the corner, impending, on the watch, with breathless expectation, with bated breath, with rapt anticipation, arrectis auribus, we shall see, nous verrons, expectation whirls me round, the light at the end of the tunnel.