dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/aby_MW.json

{
  "abysmal":{
    "antonyms":[
      "shallow",
      "shoal",
      "skin-deep",
      "superficial",
      "surface"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": abyssal sense 2":[],
      ": having immense or fathomless extension downward, backward, or inward":[
        "an abysmal cliff"
      ],
      ": immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad":[
        "abysmal ignorance/poverty",
        "abysmal living conditions",
        "an abysmal performance"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "They were living in abysmal ignorance.",
      "a desperate cry echoing from the abysmal reaches of the cave",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Still, most of his customers are in South L.A., where access to healthy food has historically been abysmal . \u2014 Kenan Draughornestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 19 June 2022",
      "As their homes were occupied, looted and even burned, the Unangax\u0302 were interred in abysmal conditions at former cannery and mining sites. \u2014 Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News , 29 May 2022",
      "Diversity in winter sports remains abysmal -- Jackson is one of few Black athletes on Team USA for the 2022 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games. \u2014 Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "As part of the Paris Climate Agreement, nations are supposed to be working to do their part in limiting global warming to 1.5\u00b0C, a threshold that is vital to limiting catastrophic natural disasters and abysmal weather conditions. \u2014 Li Cohen, CBS News , 22 Oct. 2021",
      "The media remains abysmal at covering long, slow-moving crises; American foreign policy typically lives in those blind spots, but inequality and climate change seem to reside there as well. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 25 Aug. 2021",
      "Black education remains abysmal , while more than seventy per cent of top management leaders in the private sector are white. \u2014 Robin Wrigh, The New Yorker , 28 July 2021",
      "Peever isn\u2019t the only student turning his abysmal living conditions at uni into viral TikTok fodder. \u2014 Daisy Schofield, refinery29.com , 9 Feb. 2021",
      "And for a team that posted abysmal offensive numbers on Thursday, the Coyotes could sure use the speed, skill and creativity that Schmaltz brings to the lineup. \u2014 Richard Morin, The Arizona Republic , 14 Aug. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "abysm + -al entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8biz-m\u0259l",
      "a-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bottomless",
      "deep",
      "profound"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-013515",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "abyss":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an immeasurably deep gulf or great space":[
        "gazed down into the gaping abyss",
        "the ocean's abysses",
        "( figurative ) a widening abyss between the rich and the poor"
      ],
      ": intellectual or moral depths":[
        "an abyss of moral depravity",
        "an abyss of despair"
      ],
      ": the bottomless gulf, pit, or chaos of the old cosmogonies":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8bis",
      "also \u02c8a-(\u02cc)bis",
      "a-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "abysm",
      "chasm",
      "deep",
      "gulf",
      "ocean"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "looking down at the dark ocean from the ship's rail, the cruise passenger felt as though he was staring into an abyss",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "That sequence ended with Earnest turning into a monster, while ghosts pulled his Black companion into the watery abyss . \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "Zelensky accused Russia of fomenting fear and of creating an informational abyss in a bid to have Ukrainians forget about their homeland and culture. \u2014 Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
      "Known as the gateway to Everest, the airport's runway is laid out on a cliffside between mountains, dropping straight into an abyss at the end. \u2014 Rhea Mogul And Manveena Suri, CNN , 31 May 2022",
      "The recent leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade has prompted many commentators to charge that a hyper-politicized, conservative Court is on the verge of losing its legitimacy and plunging America into a constitutional abyss . \u2014 Akhil Reed Amar, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
      "There's nothing worse than a travel bag that is a neverending abyss . \u2014 Rebecca Carhart, PEOPLE.com , 11 May 2022",
      "The conflicting symbols illustrate the paradox of tracing one\u2019s lineage to a watery abyss . \u2014 Julian Lucas, The New Yorker , 4 May 2022",
      "The organization either will be fools for letting go of Wilson too soon and venturing back into a quarterback unknown that seems like an abyss for more than half the league. \u2014 Jerry Brewer, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "Beneath the acrid comedy of such episodes lies an abyss of confused sorrow. \u2014 New York Times , 24 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Late Latin abyssus , borrowed from Greek \u00e1byssos \"bottomless, unfathomable, (as noun) bottomless gulf,\" from a- a- entry 2 + byss\u00f3s \"depth of the sea,\" probably going back to *byth-yos , derivative of byth\u00f3s \"depth, deepest part, bottom,\" probably of pre-Greek substratal origin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001746"
  },
  "abyssal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": unfathomable sense b":[],
      ": of or relating to the bottom waters of the ocean depths":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8bi-s\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Beijing announced new tariffs against the US on Friday, deepening the already abyssal trade war between the two countries. \u2014 Aj Willingham, CNN , 26 Aug. 2019",
      "As an open-source project, C:DDA has its inner workings posted freely online, where anyone with a working knowledge of C++ can dive in and add weapons, recipes, and more information into the simulation's already abyssal depths. \u2014 Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics , 17 Dec. 2018",
      "Even here, though, abyssal tuba notes exposed a sonic substratum. \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 21 Apr. 2017",
      "Before New Horizons flew by, scientists thought there wouldn\u2019t be much in the way of geological activity happening out there on the fringe, where temperatures are decidedly abyssal and materials tend to freeze in place. \u2014 National Geographic , 14 July 2016"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Medieval Latin abyss\u0101lis , from Late Latin abyssus abyss + Latin -\u0101lis -al entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1609, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-014615"
  },
  "abyssal plain":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of the great flat sediment-covered areas of ocean floor \u2014 see continental shelf illustration":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The team had discovered an undersea volcano, or seamount, on an abyssal plain \u2014a geologically inactive region that shouldn\u2019t have any. \u2014 Akila Raghavan, Science | AAAS , 15 July 2021",
      "Drazen is one of a select few scientists who have explored the abyssal plain ecosystem of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), where the majority of the ISA\u2019s undersea mining contracts are located. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 May 2020",
      "Now, seamounts have caught the eye of people interested in using sophisticated machines to mine deep-sea habitats, including hydrothermal vents and abyssal plains , that hold precious minerals. \u2014 Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS , 12 Sep. 2019",
      "Companies hoping to extract those metals from the seabed are focusing first on abyssal plains . \u2014 Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS , 12 Sep. 2019",
      "One of the first dots in question was the unusual location of the 1969 earthquake's epicenter: a featureless expanse known as the Horseshoe abyssal plain . \u2014 National Geographic , 6 May 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1880, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-043423"
  },
  "abyssalpelagic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or occurring in the open water of the abyssal zone":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "abyssal or abyss + -o- + pelagic":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1844, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-052641"
  },
  "abysm":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": abyss":[
        "the dark backward and abysm of time",
        "\u2014 William Shakespeare"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8bi-z\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "abyss",
      "chasm",
      "deep",
      "gulf",
      "ocean"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "a recurrent dream in which he would fall helplessly into a dark and silent abysm"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed (with later spelling-pronunciation of s ) from Anglo-French & Middle French abysme (compare Middle English abyme from Anglo-French abime, abisme ), going back to Old French abysme , going back to Vulgar Latin *abismus , alteration of Late Latin abyssus abyss , perhaps via ab\u00edss(i)mus , alteration by haplology of abyss\u00edssimus , a superlative derivative from abyssus":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-054437"
  },
  "abyssal hill":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of the numerous relatively low elevations arising from the ocean floor":[
        "Low abyssal hills (less than 1 kilometer above the surrounding ocean bottom) cover about 80% of the Pacific floor and about half of the Atlantic.",
        "\u2014 M. Grant Gross , Oceanography 5th Edition , 1990"
      ],
      "\u2014 compare abyssal plain , seamount":[
        "Low abyssal hills (less than 1 kilometer above the surrounding ocean bottom) cover about 80% of the Pacific floor and about half of the Atlantic.",
        "\u2014 M. Grant Gross , Oceanography 5th Edition , 1990"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1960, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103712"
  },
  "abyssal rock":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": plutonic rock":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1891, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-112028"
  },
  "abyssal zone":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the biogeographic realm consisting of the deep sea, lacking higher plant life because of the absence of light, and occupied chiefly by carnivorous animals that are often blind or have special luminous organs and are structurally adapted to withstand the great pressures of this level":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1852, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174202"
  },
  "Abyla":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "\u2014 see musa, jebel":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-214110"
  },
  "Abyssinia":{
    "type":[
      "adjective or noun",
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "\u2014 see ethiopia sense 2":[
        "\u2014 a historical name"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-ny\u0259",
      "\u02cca-b\u0259-\u02c8si-n\u0113-\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-220339"
  },
  "abyssalbenthic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or occurring on the sea bottom of the abyssal zone":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u00a6bis\u0259l + \u00a6-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "abyssal or abyss + -o- + benthic":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1942, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-000025"
  }
}