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abysmal

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore A words

extremely bad or profound in degree

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Abysmal in a sentence

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The film received abysmal reviews and closed within a week.

Synonyms
dreadfulappallingatrocious
Antonyms
excellentsuperbadmirable

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Verbal · Text Completion

The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Abysmal (adjective) means extremely bad or profound in degree
Here is abysmal used in an example sentence: "The film received abysmal reviews and closed within a week."
Common synonyms for abysmal include dreadful, appalling, atrocious.
Antonyms of abysmal include excellent, superb, admirable.
Abysmal is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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