Abysmally
of or like an ; immeasurably deep or great.
extremely or hopelessly bad or severe:
abysmal ignorance; abysmal poverty.
contemporary examples
almost as bad as the reviews that moby d-ck received, which were abysmally negative.
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historical examples
when he got up, he was physically normal again, but abysmally ashamed.
sand doom william fitzgerald jenkins
they knew how abysmally hopeless was their chance of accomplishing anything.
lords of the stratosphere arthur j. burks
for a secretary she is too abysmally ignorant, too grotesquely incapable.
the morals of marcus ordeyne william j. locke
and all change, to the home-staying heart, can be so abysmally upsetting!
the prairie child arthur stringer
the humor of the b-ssoon is an unconscious humor, and results from the use made of its abysmally solemn voice.
how to listen to music, 7th ed. henry edward krehbiel
before them was life, but life so hideously and abysmally alien that their brains reeled in horror.
the cavern of the shining ones hal k. wells
if he hadn’t been abysmally lazy, he might have been very good at it.
lion loose james h. schmitz
the social gap between this afterguard and rose and her colleagues in the chorus, was not so very wide, but it was abysmally deep.
the real adventure henry kitch-ll webster
the great tragedy of her life, however, the thing that had brought her to her present p-ss, was her abysmally foul horoscope.
conquest over time michael shaara
adjective
immeasurable; very great: abysmal stupidity
(informal) extremely bad: an abysmal film
adj.
1650s, formed in english from abysm + -al (1). weakened sense of “extremely bad” is first recorded 1904, perhaps from abysmal ignorance (suggestive of its “depth”), an expression attested from 1847. related: abysmally.
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