Abysmal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Resembling an abyss in depth; unfathomable.
  • adj. Very profound; limitless: abysmal misery.
  • adj. Very bad: an abysmal performance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Bottomless; extremely bad.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to an abyss; bottomless; profound; fathomless; immeasurable.
  • Specifically Pertaining to great depths in the ocean: thus, species of plants found only at great depths are called abysmal species, and also abyssal (which see).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable
  • adj. very great; limitless
  • Equivalent
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bottomless    unending    profound   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    baptismal    dismal   
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