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Abysmal - 5 dictionary results

a⋅bys⋅mal

[uh-biz-muhl]
–adjective
1. of or like an abyss; immeasurably deep or great.
2. extremely or hopelessly bad or severe: abysmal ignorance; abysmal poverty.

Origin:
1650–60; abysm + -al 1
Language Translation for : Abysmal
Spanish: pésimo, German: furchtbar, Japanese: 底知れぬほど
a·bys·mal     (ə-bĭz'məl)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Resembling an abyss in depth; unfathomable.
  2. Very profound; limitless: abysmal misery.
  3. Very bad: an abysmal performance.
a·bys'mal·ly adv.

abysmal 
1656, formed in Eng. from obsolete abysm "bottomless gulf, greatest depths" (c.1300), from O.Fr. abisme, from V.L. *abyssimus, superl. of L. abyssus (see abyss). Weakened sense of "extremely bad" is first recorded 1904.

abysmal

adjective
1. very great; limitless; "abysmal misery"; "abysmal stupidity" 
2. resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable; "the abyssal depths of the ocean" 

Abysmal

A*bys"mal\, a. Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.

Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. --Carlyle.

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