abysmal

abysmal
adjective
  1. (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。
  2. (poetic/literary)very deep
    (诗/文)深不可测的
派生
abysmally
adverb
  1. [as submodifier]a boy who is abysmally lazy.
    极懒的男孩。
语源
  1. mid 17th cent. (used literally as in sense 2): from abysm. Sense 1dates from the early 19th cent
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