(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.
Low
Definition:
() strong imp. of Laugh.
(v. i.) To make the calling sound of cows and other bovine animals; to moo.
(n.) The calling sound ordinarily made by cows and other bovine animals.
(n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.
(n.) Fire; a flame; a light.
(v. i.) To burn; to blaze.
(superl.) Occupying an inferior position or place; not high or elevated; depressed in comparison with something else; as, low ground; a low flight.
(superl.) Not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature; a low fence.
(superl.) Near the horizon; as, the sun is low at four o'clock in winter, and six in summer.
(superl.) Sunk to the farthest ebb of the tide; as, low tide.
(superl.) Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value; moderate; cheap; as, the low price of corn; low wages.
(superl.) Not loud; as, a low voice; a low sound.
(superl.) Depressed in the scale of sounds; grave; as, a low pitch; a low note.
(superl.) Made, as a vowel, with a low position of part of the tongue in relation to the palate; as, / (/m), / (all). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 5, 10, 11.
(superl.) Near, or not very distant from, the equator; as, in the low northern latitudes.
(superl.) Numerically small; as, a low number.
(superl.) Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits.
(superl.) Depressed in condition; humble in rank; as, men of low condition; the lower classes.
(superl.) Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem.
(superl.) Not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a low comparison.
(superl.) Submissive; humble.
(superl.) Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.
(superl.) Moderate; not intense; not inflammatory; as, low heat; a low temperature; a low fever.
(superl.) Smaller than is reasonable or probable; as, a low estimate.
(superl.) Not rich, high seasoned, or nourishing; plain; simple; as, a low diet.
(n.) The lowest trump, usually the deuce; the lowest trump dealt or drawn.
(adv.) In a low position or manner; not aloft; not on high; near the ground.
(adv.) Under the usual price; at a moderate price; cheaply; as, he sold his wheat low.
(adv.) In a low mean condition; humbly; meanly.
(adv.) In time approaching our own.
(adv.) With a low voice or sound; not loudly; gently; as, to speak low.
(adv.) With a low musical pitch or tone.
(adv.) In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low by oppression, by want, or by vice.
(adv.) In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
(v. t.) To depress; to lower.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(2) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
(3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
(4) The technique is facilitated by an amazingly low tendency to bleeding.
(5) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(6) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
(7) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(8) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
(9) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(10) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
(11) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(12) BL6 mouse melanoma cells lack detectable H-2Kb and had low levels of expression of H-2Db Ag.
(13) The level of gadd45 mRNA increased rapidly after X rays at doses as low as 2 Gy.
(14) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(15) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(16) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(17) The extreme quenching of the dioxetane chemiluminescence by both microsomes and phosphatidylcholine, as a model phospholipid, implies that despite the low quantum yield (approx.
(18) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(19) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(20) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.