[ adv ] in a terrible manner <adv.all> she sings terribly
Abysmally \A*bys"mal*ly\, adv. To a fathomless depth; profoundly. ``Abysmally ignorant.'' --G. Eliot.
For one thing, seat-belt use was abysmally low for years.
Jim Tarrantino, head of OTC trading at Hambrecht & Quist in San Francisco, said activity among Nasdaq issues market was abysmally slow, typical of a late-summer Monday.