Abysmal

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abysmal \A*bys"mal\, a.
     Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending;
     profound.
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           Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that


           astronomy does of space.                 --Carlyle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  abysmal
       adj 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 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