Abysmal meaning

Adjective: abysmal

Pronunciation: (u’biz-mul)

Abysmal meaning:

• Very great.
• Immeasurable (depth of ocean, abysmal cliff)
• Extremely bad.

Synonyms: profound, deep, bottomless.

Quotations: Tommy Armour-The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.

Loren Thompson- This is really about a war plan that went wrong based on a series of bad decisions that reflected really abysmal intelligence.

Pat Riley- We came in here and that team just took it to us and took it away from us. It was an abysmal night.

Peter MacKay – We’re going to go after the Hells Angels, not Ducks Unlimited. This idea that you can somehow create an atmosphere around people who are already respectful of the law and superimpose this blanket handgun ban as a solution – a one size fits all, cookie-cutter approach – is an absolute abysmal failure. It’s publicly misleading and it doesn’t drill down into the real problem.

Tom Schrader – The confidence number this morning was abysmal, and that’s what shocked the market. The higher oil prices are definitely starting to have an impact on consumer spending.

Sample sentences:

1. Badminton team has an abysmal record and they haven’t won a game all year.
2. That was really an abysmal performance.
3. No extension should be granted to the city and its operator because of its abysmal record.
4. Early primaries are abysmal. Governor Ehrlich believes we should encourage voter turnout, not change the rules to stifle voter turnout.
5. These are abysmal numbers, suggesting a deeply pessimistic consumer in the first half of September.
6. However, the rising of interest rates from the current abysmal levels wouldn’t be a bad thing, as it would be happening because of positive reasons, because the economy is strengthening.
7. This is really about a war plan that went wrong based on a series of bad decisions that reflected really abysmal intelligence.
8. It’s killing the market. They did a masterful job of marketing the box and an abysmal job of managing the supply chain.
9. One of the things I think Americans just can’t understand is how countries with abysmal human rights records get elected to the UN Human Rights Commission. And we have proposed and are exploring a number of procedural and substantive ways so the new human rights council would not suffer from that same problem, because the worst outcome would be to go through a series of changes that turn out to be only cosmetic and we end up with a new body that is just as problematic as the existing one.
10. It is regrettable that our government’s abysmal coordination in the early days of the recovery effort has prevented critical international aid from being delivered to our stricken citizens and communities in the affected Gulf States.The sluggish response has left foreign governments frustrated and baffled.
11. For the most part my year went pretty good. I had a couple abysmal starts that really ruined my stats. You can’t have those. I need to show them I can be consistent with my pitches.
12. It’s abysmal safety record is there for anyone to see. We just don’t know why it’s been ignored and overlooked by all the federal agencies that are supposed to protect us.
13. The lack of information given by cruise lines is abysmal and I think that needs to change. To be a victim of one of these crimes and never see any justice done, it adds insult to injury.
14. Not withstanding the sorry state of the company, the apparent lack of financial controls, the consistently disappointing results and the abysmal investor relations, we estimate that the value of Ligand’s assets far outstrip the current enterprise value.
15. The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.