Synonyms for abysmal
əˈbɪz məlabysmal

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 3 votes

1. abysmaladjective

   very great; limitless

   "abysmal misery"; "abysmal stupidity"

   Synonyms:
   unfathomable, abyssal

   Antonyms:
   shallow, mensurable, measurable

2. abysmal, abyssal, unfathomableadjective

   resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable

   "the abyssal depths of the ocean"

   Synonyms:
   unfathomable, abyssal

   Antonyms:
   mensurable, measurable, shallow

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "abysmal":

   catastrophic, appalling

How to pronounce abysmal?

How to say abysmal in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use abysmal in a sentence?

1. Brad Pitt:

   Most of our films, which I feel is a mistake, get defined by the opening weekend. They'll say it's a hit or it's a miss. But all of my favorite films, I found them well after the fact, history is rife with films that we love today that were abysmal' bombs' on their opening weekend. And we find them later, or we catch up with them.

2. Mihir Kapadia:

   With oil prices having rallied considerably since the abysmal start to the year ... (OPEC) delegates are unlikely to be forced into extreme action.

3. Terrisa Bukovinac:

   Big Abortion has ensured that abortion remains unregulated, making in-clinic abortions indistinguishable from so-called ‘back alley’ abortions, abortion-vulnerable communities need economic and racial justice to address the root cause of abortion and the abysmal maternal mortality rate, especially for Black women, not the option to terminate the lives of our offspring!

4. Bernie Sanders:

   The way we treat women in our country has been abysmal in almost every way. We are finally addressing the issue of sexual harassment, and we need to get it right, but the conversation we are having now is only the tip of the iceberg. It needs to be an ongoing movement of women and men that includes a national discussion about sexism, sexual harassment, objectification, inequality and abuse of power.

5. Nicole Neily:

   It's abundantly clear that parents are concerned about the quality of education — Virginia recently posted staggering learning loss numbers over the course of the pandemic, which compounds the already abysmal proficiency rates in the state, when schools obsessively focus on DEI initiatives, that's time and resources that are not being spent on core curriculum.