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Abysmal

//əˈbɪz.məl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss. archaic

    "The latter [geology] gives one the same sort of bewildering view of the abysmal extent of Time that Astronomy does of Space. [First attested in the early 19ᵗʰ century.]"

  2. 2
    Extremely bad; terrible. figuratively

    "Robben curled an effort against the foot of the post from the edge of the box after being gifted the ball by an abysmal clearance from keeper Stephan Andersen."

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable wordnet
  2. 2
    very great; limitless wordnet

Etymology

From abysm + -al. Compare abyssal.

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