If you describe a situation or the condition of something as abysmal, you think that it is very bad or poor in quality.

Can people be abysmal?

If you want to say something is really, really bad — then call it abysmal. If one person shows up to your party, well then that is an abysmal turnout.

What does it mean to feel abysmal?

1a : immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad abysmal ignorance/poverty abysmal living conditions an abysmal performance.