Word Meanings - ABYSMALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.

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• DEPTH
  The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content. (more info) 1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface,or horizontal measurement backward
• PROFOUNDLY
  In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.
• IGNORANTLY
  In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23.
• FATHOMLESS
  1. Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak. 2. Incomprehensible. The fathomless absurdity. Milton.
• IGNORANTIST
  One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist.
• DEPTHLESS
  1. Having no depth; shallow. 2. Of measureless depth; unfathomable. In clouds of depthless night. Francis.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• DEPTHEN
  To deepen.
• IGNORANTISM
  The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.
• IGNORANT
  1. Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened. He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. Tillotson. 2. Unacquainted with; unconscious
• HELIOTROPE
  An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
• HELIOTROPIC
  Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
• APHELIOTROPIC
  Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. Darwin.
• SELF-IGNORANT
  Ignorant of one's self.
• HELIOTROPISM
  The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.
• HELIOTYPIC
  Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
• HELIOTYPY
  A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.
• HELIOTYPE
  A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
• APHELIOTROPISM
  The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.
• DIAHELIOTROPISM
  A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.