Abysmal vs Egregious - What's the difference?
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(now, rare) Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss; unending; profound; fathomless; immeasurable.
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(figurative, colloquial) Bottomless; extremely bad.
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Exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.
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Outrageously bad; shocking.
As adjectives the difference between abysmal and egregious
is that abysmal is pertaining to, or resembling an abyss; unending; profound; fathomless; immeasurable while egregious is exceptional, conspicuous, outstanding, most usually in a negative fashion.abysmal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space.
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "abysmal" is often applied: ignorance, record, performance, poverty, conditions, quality, perplexity, result, and failure.References
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* *egregious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The student has made egregious errors on the examination.
- I cannot cross my arms, or sigh "Ah me," / "Ah me forlorn!" egregious foppery! / I cannot buss thy fill, play with thy hair, / Swearing by Jove, "Thou art most debonnaire!"
- My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.
- When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious .
