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Definition of abysmal in English: abysmaladjective əˈbɪzm(ə)ləˈbɪzməl 1Extremely bad; appalling. 〈非正式〉极糟的；耸人听闻的 the quality of her work is abysmal 她工作的质量糟透了。 Example sentencesExamples - There was no denying Ballylinan's superiority as they completely overshadowed an abysmal Rock performance.
- And he's so far not lived up to any single commitment that he's made, which is a pretty abysmal record.
- Happily, their plugs are configured differently or I would have fried my laptop in my abysmal ignorance.
- My summing up of her abysmal and shameful performance is written below.
- The down side is excess weight, poor performance and abysmal gas mileage.
- York University had an abysmal five per cent turnout, in part because in the previous year they hadn't had an election.
- The research will be carried out in Glasgow, where the handing out of statins is most likely to happen, because of the city's abysmal heart attack record.
- Carlow's league campaign has descended from early promise to an abysmal second half display against Wexford last time out.
- If an abysmal new series sneaks on to the schedules without provoking an outburst from us, it can trundle through its six-week schedule unscathed.
- But many schools serving the poor are of such abysmal quality that many children drop out of school in frustration.
- In this budget, the government continues its abysmal record on assisting the world's poorest people.
- And one reason it's not been achieved is the abysmal lack of planning for an aftermath which was violent.
- Certainly the abysmal suffering and despair in many poor countries should cause us sickening guilt.
- I've often wondered how they could get away with some of the cooking programmes that are on TV, considering how abysmal the hygiene shown is.
- Yet, even though official statistics reveal this abysmal state of affairs, what is the Government's response?
- For all the insensitivity of this mistake, it represents the abysmal lack of knowledge about the Baltics in the minds of many a Westerner.
- Sadly, it was an abysmal offer, some £25,000 below the asking price!
- Since the demise of the Catch Me Com buses the No 4 Highercroft route has degenerated from poor to absolutely abysmal.
- Despite throwing his hat in the ring for almost every job in the next three years, the best he could get was a brief, abysmal spell at Bradford City.
- I don't know, but I am sure that anonymity plays its part when these abysmal and frighteningly stupid people decide to view this stuff.
Synonyms very bad, dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable, shameful, woeful, hopeless, lamentable, laughable, substandard, poor, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory informal rotten, appalling, crummy, pathetic, pitiful, useless, lousy, shocking, dire, poxy, the pits British informal duff, chronic, a load of pants, pants North American vulgar slang chickenshit 2literary Very deep. 〈诗/文〉深不可测的 waterfalls that plunge into abysmal depths Example sentencesExamples - He wore a deep green robe and had the same black abysmal eyes as Mrs. Flockhart.
- Will computers close the final gap, and find in their own depths, abysmal or otherwise, an instinctual feel for the wrong move at the right time?
- He yawned widely; from the depths of the abysmal abyss stretching beyond his throat emerged his tongue.
Synonyms profound, extreme, utter, complete, thorough, deep, endless, immeasurable, boundless, incalculable, unfathomable, bottomless
OriginMid 17th century (used literally as in sense 2): from abysm. sense 1 dates from the early 19th century. The original literal sense of abysmal was ‘very deep’, and people did not start using it to describe something utterly appalling, ‘the pits’, until the beginning of the early 19th century. The word shares a source with abyss (Late Middle English) Greek abussos ‘bottomless’.
Rhymesbaptismal, catechismal, dismal, paroxysmal Definition of abysmal in US English: abysmaladjectiveəˈbɪzmələˈbizməl 1Extremely bad; appalling. 〈非正式〉极糟的；耸人听闻的 the quality of her work is abysmal 她工作的质量糟透了。 Example sentencesExamples - I don't know, but I am sure that anonymity plays its part when these abysmal and frighteningly stupid people decide to view this stuff.
- Sadly, it was an abysmal offer, some £25,000 below the asking price!
- And he's so far not lived up to any single commitment that he's made, which is a pretty abysmal record.
- There was no denying Ballylinan's superiority as they completely overshadowed an abysmal Rock performance.
- The down side is excess weight, poor performance and abysmal gas mileage.
- Since the demise of the Catch Me Com buses the No 4 Highercroft route has degenerated from poor to absolutely abysmal.
- York University had an abysmal five per cent turnout, in part because in the previous year they hadn't had an election.
- My summing up of her abysmal and shameful performance is written below.
- If an abysmal new series sneaks on to the schedules without provoking an outburst from us, it can trundle through its six-week schedule unscathed.
- Yet, even though official statistics reveal this abysmal state of affairs, what is the Government's response?
- Certainly the abysmal suffering and despair in many poor countries should cause us sickening guilt.
- In this budget, the government continues its abysmal record on assisting the world's poorest people.
- I've often wondered how they could get away with some of the cooking programmes that are on TV, considering how abysmal the hygiene shown is.
- And one reason it's not been achieved is the abysmal lack of planning for an aftermath which was violent.
- Despite throwing his hat in the ring for almost every job in the next three years, the best he could get was a brief, abysmal spell at Bradford City.
- The research will be carried out in Glasgow, where the handing out of statins is most likely to happen, because of the city's abysmal heart attack record.
- For all the insensitivity of this mistake, it represents the abysmal lack of knowledge about the Baltics in the minds of many a Westerner.
- Carlow's league campaign has descended from early promise to an abysmal second half display against Wexford last time out.
- Happily, their plugs are configured differently or I would have fried my laptop in my abysmal ignorance.
- But many schools serving the poor are of such abysmal quality that many children drop out of school in frustration.
Synonyms very bad, dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable, shameful, woeful, hopeless, lamentable, laughable, substandard, poor, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory 2literary Very deep. 〈诗/文〉深不可测的 Example sentencesExamples - He wore a deep green robe and had the same black abysmal eyes as Mrs. Flockhart.
- Will computers close the final gap, and find in their own depths, abysmal or otherwise, an instinctual feel for the wrong move at the right time?
- He yawned widely; from the depths of the abysmal abyss stretching beyond his throat emerged his tongue.
Synonyms profound, extreme, utter, complete, thorough, deep, endless, immeasurable, boundless, incalculable, unfathomable, bottomless
OriginMid 17th century (used literally as in abysmal (sense 2)): from abysm. abysmal (sense 1) dates from the early 19th century. |