What does abysmal mean?

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Adjective
  1. (now rare) Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]
  2. (figuratively) extremely bad; terrible.
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Our society has almost sunk into abysmal moral degeneration and deterioration.
Other reasons were poor roads and abysmal vehicle maintenance and, according to some Russian citizens, the high car-ownership among Georgians.
Happily, their plugs are configured differently or I would have fried my laptop in my abysmal ignorance.
He wore a deep green robe and had the same black abysmal eyes as Mrs. Flockhart.
A pox on all gear designers who've never field-tested their abysmal creations.
And he's so far not lived up to any single commitment that he's made, which is a pretty abysmal record.

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