Usually means: Extremely bad; appalling; profoundly deep.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word abysmal:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. abysmal: Merriam-Webster
  2. abysmal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abysmal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abysmal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abysmal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abysmal, abysmal: Wordnik
  7. abysmal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abysmal: Wiktionary
  9. abysmal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abysmal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abysmal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Abysmal, abysmal: Dictionary.com
  13. abysmal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. abysmal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Abysmal (album), Abysmal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Abysmal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. abysmal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. abysmal: Rhymezone
  19. abysmal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. abysmal: FreeDictionary.org
  21. abysmal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. abysmal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. abysmal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. abysmal: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abysmal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abysmal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abysmal: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Abysmal: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See abysmally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (now rare) Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss.
adjective:  (figurative) extremely bad; terrible.

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