abysmally
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abysmally (comparative more abysmally, superlative most abysmally)
- (derogatory) Very; incredibly; profoundly; to an extreme degree; dreadfully. [First attested in the late 19th century.][1]
- G. Eliot
- "Abysmally ignorant"
- G. Eliot
References [edit]
- ^ 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 11:
