Abysmal - 5 dictionary results
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Language Translation for : Abysmal
| Spanish: | pésimo, | German: | furchtbar, | Japanese: | 底知れぬほど |
a·bys·mal
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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.
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| 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" |
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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.
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