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Meaning of ABYSMAL

Pronunciation:  u'bizmul

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  so deep as to be unmeasurable; unfathomable; "the abyssal depths of the ocean"
  2. [adj]  very great; limitless; "abysmal misery"; "abysmal stupidity"
 
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 Synonyms: abyssal, deep, immeasurable, immensurable, unmeasurable
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\A*bys"mal\, a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending;
profound.
      Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that
      astronomy does of space.                 --Carlyle.
 
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Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: abyssal, appalling, astronomic, Atlantean, awful, bottomless, Brobdingnagian, cavernous, colossal, Cyclopean, deep as hell, dreadful, elephantine, enormous, epic, fathomless, gaping, Gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, Herculean, heroic, Homeric, 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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