abysmal
/əˈbɪzməl/adjective
1
- informal extremely 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。
2
- poetic/literary very deep〈诗/文〉深不可测的。
派生词
abysmally
adverb极懒的男孩。
词源
mid 17th cent. (used literally as in sense 2): from ABYSM. Sense 1 dates from the early 19th cent.