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a⋅bys⋅mal
[uh-biz-muh
l] 
–adjective
| 1. | of or like an abyss; immeasurably deep or great. |
| 2. | extremely or hopelessly bad or severe: abysmal ignorance; abysmal poverty. |
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Abysmal
Spanish:
pésimo,
German:
furchtbar,
Japanese:
底知れぬほど
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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