transcription, транскрипция: [ ə-ˈbiz-məl, a- ]
adjective
Date: circa 1656
1.
a. : having immense or fathomless extension downward, backward, or inward
an abysmal cliff
b. : immeasurably great : profound
abysmal ignorance
c. : immeasurably low or wretched
abysmal living conditions of the poor
2. : abyssal 2
• abys·mal·ly -mə-lē adverb