abysmal
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| —adj | |
| 1. | immeasurable; very great: abysmal stupidity |
| 2. | informal extremely bad: an abysmal film |
| a'bysmally | |
| —adv | |
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abysmal
1650s, formed in Eng. from obsolete abysm "bottomless gulf, greatest depths" (c.1300), from O.Fr. abisme (Mod.Fr. abîme), from V.L. *abyssimus (source of Sp., Port. abismo), superl. of L. abyssus or on analogy of Gk.-derived words in -ismus; see abyss. Weakened sense
of "extremely bad" is first recorded 1904.
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