abysmal
abysmaladjective- (informal)extremely bad; appalling
(非正式)极糟的;耸人听闻的
the quality of her work is abysmal.
她工作的质量糟透了。
- (poetic/literary)very deep
(诗/文)深不可测的
派生abysmallyadverb- [as submodifier]a boy who is abysmally lazy.
极懒的男孩。
语源- mid 17th cent. (used literally as in sense 2): from abysm. Sense 1dates from the early 19th cent
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