abysmal Add to list Share. 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 is an abysmal person?

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

Can you describe a person as abysmal?

extremely or hopelessly bad or severe: abysmal ignorance; abysmal poverty.