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English
Etymology
From abysmal + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
abysmally (comparative more abysmally, superlative most abysmally)
- Very; incredibly; profoundly; to an extreme degree; dreadfully. [1]
2015 April 4, Judith Woods, “I knew it! Spring cleaning is bad for your family's health ”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 9 April 2015:Am I alone in feeling smug (if slatternly) about the news that super-clean homes are a breeding ground for infection? Apparently, all that bleach is bad not just for germs but for children's immune systems, too, and paradoxically causes more disease than it prevents. Not round my gaff. Oh no. My standards of housekeeping are so abysmally low that my eldest daughter was three years old before she even developed a temperature.
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References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abysmally”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11.