Meaning & use
Abysmally
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To an extremely bad or low degree; dismally.
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The team performed abysmally in the first half, trailing by thirty points.
Ticket sales for the show were abysmally low, forcing organizers to cancel it.
A note on using this word
Derived from "abysmal," which originally described something as deep as an abyss before taking on its modern sense of "very bad."
Words with a similar meaning
terriblydismally
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Words with an opposite meaning
superblyexcellently
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