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English
Etymology
abysm + -al
Pronunciation
Adjective
abysmal (comparative more abysmal, superlative most abysmal)
- (now rare) Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss.
- Synonyms: unending, profound, fathomless, immeasurable
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- The latter gives one the same sort of bewildering view of the abysmal extent of Time that Astronomy does of Space.
- (figurative) extremely bad; terrible.
2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport: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.
Derived terms
Collocations
with nouns
- abysmal ignorance
- abysmal record
- abysmal performance
- abysmal poverty
- abysmal conditions
- abysmal quality
- abysmal result
- abysmal service
- abysmal failure
Translations
pertaining to, or resembling an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound
- Bulgarian: бездънен (bg) (bezdǎnen)
- Finnish: pohjaton (fi), äärimmäinen (fi), surkea (fi), toivoton (fi), kelvoton (fi)
- French: abyssal (fr) m
- German: abgründig (de), abgrundtief (de)
- Greek: αβυσσαλέος (el) m (avyssaléos), απύθμενος (el) m (apýthmenos), απειροβαθής m (apeirovathís), άπατος (el) m (ápatos)
- Hungarian: feneketlen (hu), mélységes (hu)
- Italian: abissale (it)
- Persian: مغاکمانند (mağâk-mânand), ژرفناک (žarf-nâk)
- Portuguese: abismal
- Russian: бездо́нный (ru) (bezdónnyj)
- Spanish: abismal (es), insondable (es)
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extremely bad
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 无可救药 (zh) (wúkějiùyào), 烂透 (zh)
- Esperanto: malbonega
- Finnish: hirvittävä (fi), kammottava (fi), kauhea (fi)
- French: épouvantable (fr) m or f, terrible (fr) m or f, exécrable (fr) m or f
- German: erbärmlich (de), jämmerlich (de), unterirdisch (de), unter aller Sau (de)
- Greek: ανεκδιήγητος (el) m (anekdiígitos), απερίγραπτος (el) m (aperígraptos)
- Hungarian: gyalázatos (hu), borzalmas (hu), rettenetes (hu), szánalmas (hu), siralmas (hu), nyomorúságos (hu), csúfos (hu), lehangoló (hu), lesújtó (hu), iszonyú (hu), szörnyű (hu), pocsék (hu), kritikán aluli, rémes (hu)
- Italian: disastroso (it), pessimo (it)
- Persian: وحشتناک (fa) (vahšat-nâk), افتضاح (fa) (eftezâh)
- Polish: beznadziejny (pl)
- Portuguese: abismal
- Russian: отврати́тельный (ru) (otvratítelʹnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у̏жа̄сан
- Roman: ȕžāsan (sh)
- Spanish: atroz (es), desastroso (es)
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Translations to be checked
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abysmal”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11.
Further reading
- “abysmal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “abysmal”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Portuguese
Adjective
abysmal m or f (plural abysmaes)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of abismal.