| Pronunciation: | | u'bizmul
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| Matching Terms: | | abysmally
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- [adj] so deep as to be unmeasurable; unfathomable; "the abyssal depths of the ocean"
- [adj] very great; limitless; "abysmal misery"; "abysmal stupidity"
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| | Synonyms: | | abyssal, deep, immeasurable, immensurable, unmeasurable |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | 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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| | 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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