 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
abysmal
adjective
1: very great; limitless; "abysmal misery"; "abysmal stupidity"
2: so deep as to be unmeasurable; "the abyssal depths of the
ocean" [syn: {abyssal}, {unfathomable}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abysmal \A*bys"mal\, adjective
Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending;
profound.
Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that
astronomy does of space. --Carlyle.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "abysmal":
Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
Homeric, abyssal, appalling, astronomic, awful, bottomless,
cavernous, colossal, deep as hell, dreadful, elephantine, enormous,
epic, fathomless, gaping, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, huge,
illimitable, immense, infinite, jumbo, mammoth, mighty, monster,
monstrous, monumental, mountainous, plumbless, plunging,
prodigious, profound, soundless, stupendous, terrible, titanic,
towering, tremendous, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, vast,
without bottom, yawning
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