(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.
Example Sentences:
(1) "As a stylist Brown gets better and better: where once he was abysmal he is now just very poor," wrote Jake Kerridge in the Daily Telegraph .
(2) In fact, the general standard of new architecture here is, sadly, abysmal.
(3) That the host defenses may be somewhat enhanced by pregnancy while susceptibility to certain diseases is increased is paradoxical and serves to underscore the fact that our understanding of host defense in pregnancy is abysmally deficient.
(4) Even with no strikes, Southern’s public performance measures remain abysmal by most standards, with only 70% of trains running to within five minutes of their advertised time on Tuesday.
(5) Richard Di Natale, the Greens leader and Victorian senator, said it was likely the final make-up of the Senate would not be known for weeks, but that the result, already, had been an “abysmal failure” for the government.
(6) "Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit.
(7) "This law has the potential to make Afghanistan an absolute abysmal catastrophe as it relates to public order, rule of law and general common decency."
(8) Newcastle’s manager responded by replacing Yoan Gouffran, abysmal in central midfield, with Emmanuel Rivière as he switched from 4-1-4-1 to 4-4-2.
(9) A second delivery review team visit in September was told by Lorenzo's deputy head of testing that test results were "abysmal".
(10) That public policy has abysmally failed the chronically mentally ill seems beyond genuine dispute.
(11) The abysmal condition of nutrition in India, both undernutrition and overnutrition , has crept into the global development agenda recently, with increasing focus from academics, policymakers and activists.
(12) That first half was abysmal, a complete disgrace, but this is much improved fare.
(13) And given the abysmal farce of the AV referendum, the very last people to listen to on the timing and terms of a referendum would be the Lib Dems."
(14) The whole French team, their coac h, Raymond Domenech, and the French football federation are just abysmally stupid.
(15) The criticism reached a crescendo in January when the BBC's Inside Out broadcast a report claiming the wages being paid to workers at Kibale were 'abysmal' and that viewers would do better to reduce their own carbon emissions than to buy offsets.
(16) Even with several office jobs and internships under my belt, my job prospects looked abysmal.
(17) To allow someone into the UK who is explicitly promoting these things is abysmal.” A social media campaign against Blanc has gathered pace in recent days, with Twitter users sharing pictures of him with his hand around the throats of women that he has shared using the hashtag #ChokingGirlsAroundTheWorld.
(18) Despite monumental pent-up demand for more housing in London, there isn’t enough being built – and because the volume house builders don’t care about architecture, community life or civic space, the quality of new housing is generally abysmal.
(19) So while it might have other merits, it is surely wrong for TfL to issue a blank cheque, particularly given the financial pressures they face from the chancellor.” Authors, architects and artists line up to lambast ‘abysmal’ garden bridge plan Read more Peck also cited Khan’s lack of support for the bridge between Temple and the South Bank.
(20) To this extent, Khomeini's edict and the murderous campaign it engendered failed abysmally.
Fathomless
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded.
(a.) Incomprehensible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coming from the dense urban context of Italy, where he grew up in Turin, Soleri found American cities to be anathema, their auto-centric planning “a fathomless sinkhole for immense waste”.
(2) The crown translates a woman to a Queen – endless gold, circling itself, an O like a well, fathomless, for the years to drown in – history's bride, anointed, blessed, for a crowning.
(3) But I began hearing something used more and more widely on my noughties jazz travels: a taut, unsentimental, many-layered sound that seemed to connect to the interlocking patterns of hip-hop and dance beats, the power of computers and fathomless online jukeboxes, contemporary-classical and minimalist ideas, and the cyclical patterns of African and Indian traditions.
(4) So they papered over what was a dark, fathomless chasm in their marriage and pretended all was well.
(5) It's drily funny, a little self-deprecating, told in a slightly camp Oldham accent, and it features one of his seemingly fathomless array of celebrity friends.
(6) Here was a calm, ponderous and dedicated European brushing up against the man whose ignorance of foreign affairs seems fathomless, and whose brain seems to work in 140-character spurts of vulgarity and provocation.
(7) For a fathomless reason Meyler decided to turn the ball from the left towards Jakupovic only to pass straight to Giroud, and the Frenchman made no mistake for a 19th strike of the season.
(8) I was a little frightened of the house at first: those eyes followed me doggedly, and at night, when the darkness was fathomless, the house embarked on long interior monologues, the water groaning in its old pipes, the floorboards clicking and creaking, the damp walls sometimes emitting a profound shudder or sigh, while outside the wind roared in the oak trees and over the black shapes of hills.