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> and the yield was abysmal. Nit: abysmal means very great/limitless... I suspect you meant dismal here.
by newnewpdro 7y ago
> and the yield was abysmal.
Nit: abysmal means very great/limitless... I suspect you meant dismal here.
- bsder 7y agoYou might want to go check a dictionary. "abysmal" can mean very great or limitless DOWNWARD (a la "abyssal")--but that's a secondary definition. However, the primary definition appears to be: "immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad"--which is the sense in which I used the word.
- newnewpdro 7y agoI did, but apparently my local WordNet definitions in 'dict' failed me: abysmal adj 1: very great; limitless; "abysmal misery"; "abysmal stupidity" 2: resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable; "the abyssal depths of the ocean" [syn: {abysmal}, {abyssal}, {unfathomable}]
- brokenmachine 7y agoabysmal adjective 1. extremely bad; appalling. "the quality of her work is abysmal" synonyms: very bad, dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable, shameful, woeful, hopeless, lamentable, laughable, substandard, poor, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory