{"id":303,"date":"2014-09-09T04:51:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T04:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2014-09-09T04:51:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T04:51:53","slug":"abysmal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/abysmal\/","title":{"rendered":"Abysmal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abysmal (uh BIZ mul) (Adjective)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>An <strong>abyss<\/strong> <\/strong>is a bottomless pit<strong>. Abysmal<\/strong> means hopeless or wretched. Abysmal despair is despair so deep that no hope seems possible.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The company\u2019s financial problem is <strong>abysmal<\/strong>; they haven\u2019t even paid their employees for months.<\/li>\n<li>The opposition alleged that the nation\u2019s debt crisis was<strong> abysmal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Abysmal<\/strong> can mean \u2018very bad\u2019. This usage is not strictly correct, but you will hear many people using abysmal with this meaning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The team\u2019s performance was <strong>abysmal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They sacked the coach for the <strong>abysmal<\/strong> performance of the team.<\/li>\n<li>We will never hire that contractor again. The quality of his work is <strong>abysmal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Synonyms of abysmal<\/h3>\n<p>Bottomless, awful, terrible, disgraceful, atrocious, deplorable, inferior, unsatisfactory, profound, unfathomable, endless, boundless, endless, immeasurable<\/p>\n<h3>Antonyms of abysmal<\/h3>\n<p>Shallow, shoal, superficial, skin-deep, surface<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abysmal (uh BIZ mul) (Adjective) An abyss is a bottomless pit. Abysmal means hopeless or wretched. Abysmal despair is despair so deep that no hope seems possible. The company\u2019s financial problem is abysmal; they&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-word-a-day","tag-abysmal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}