abysmal
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- adjective
- /əˈbɪzməl/
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abismal
- The ocean's depths are so abysmal that we have only explored a small fraction of them.
Examples
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Where he glided, there was no sun, only the perpetual darkness of the ocean's abysmal deep.
Fiction book (2001) -
And see, over them and spilling down from them, the dark, dangerous, and abysmal forest—the Hestwood, ha!" Caly smiled tolerantly, tilting her head.
Fiction book (1999) -
Into the abysmal pit must you fall before you see the abysmal blue.
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"I am sunk in the abysmal swamp where there is no foothold.
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From the sub's speakers, the strange noises of the abysmal deep echoed through the small space: a chorus of eerie pulses, chirps, and high-frequency squeals.
Fiction book (2001) -
He felt an abysmal sense of loneliness after his friends moved away.
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The team's performance was abysmal, resulting in an embarrassing loss.
Synonyms
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Very strong or intense, for example very dark
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Very hard to understand or measure how deep something is
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So large that it seems to have no limit
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Very deep and hard to understand or imagine
Too great to measure
How Deep
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Abysmal comes from abyss, which means 'bottomless deep'. So abysmal originally described something extremely deep, like a dark hole with no bottom.