abominable
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7.2
- adjective
- /əˈbɑːmɪnəbl/
:
abominable
- The community was outraged by the abominable discrimination against its members.
- abominable teaching
I think what's happened to the Asians at Harvard, again, this is to be decided by the court is abominable.
- I think what's happened to the Asians at Harvard, again, this is to be decided by the court is abominable.
- And this child's, as she calls it, abominable misery.
- I feel like the abominable abominable yeti's girlfriend.
- We also see all the other cases of cops going through the courts, everyone a lot charged with abominable, unforgivable crimes.
Examples
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Get yourself some mints because your breath is abominable.
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But what's really sort of abominable is that this is not a new idea.
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And what exactly is it that you find so abominable about us, Joe?
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Why did you have to break my heart with that abominable letter?
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We draw your attention to the abominable behavior of Mr. Jones.
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Something good will emerge from your abominable experiment, after all.
Fiction book (1996) -
And I'm like, Oh, my God, I've been living in just abominable conditions.
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The pope considered the demand a "most abominable crime," making heretics of the participants.
Academic text (2018) -
From the colonies there came not just silks and spices, but a virulent and abominable plague.
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From this vantage point, the study of stolen remains constitutes abominable acts of sacrilege, desecration, and depravity.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Very bad or unpleasant and often serious
∞
1.0
Very bad or unpleasant and causing dislike
531
1.3
Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making you feel sick
268
4.9
Very bad or offensive in a moral way
171
5.1
Very ugly and likely to make people feel shocked or disgusted
157
5.0
Very bad and morally wrong
136
3.7
Very bad and unpleasant, often causing fear or shock
95
5.7
Very bad in a way that makes people feel strong dislike and disgust
87
5.6
Causing shock and strong disgust because it is very bad
86
4.1
A person or action that is very bad and dishonest
59
5.5
Causing strong dislike or disgust, like a very bad smell
58
7.2
Too terrible to describe in words
52
4.1
A very unpleasant thing that shocks or disgusts you
42
4.9
So unpleasant or painful that you cannot bear it
42
7.8
Very unpleasant and morally wrong to most people
38
6.8
Very bad and unacceptable, deserving strong criticism
37
5.7
Very shocking and upsetting to many people because it breaks moral rules
31
6.7
Causing people to feel offended or want to protest
30
4.6
Something that makes people feel dislike or disgust
29
7.2
Something people think is morally wrong or dishonest
23
7.7
Causing strong dislike or disgust because people see it as morally wrong
21
7.2
Morally wrong because it goes against religious rules
20
8.2
Very unpleasant and likely to make people feel strong dislike
20
7.7
Causing strong disgust or hatred in people
19
7.0
Being very bad and of low quality
15
7.1
Very bad in a moral way and deserving strong blame
10
8.5
Something that people strongly blame or hate for being very bad
9
6.5
Very unpleasant and causing people to feel strong dislike or hate
6
4.9
Very unpleasant and likely to make you feel disgusted
5
6.1
Causing strong dislike or disgust
4
9.5
Very bad and unpleasant, causing strong dislike
1
7.5
Deserving strong criticism for being wrong
A person, idea or action that many people strongly dislike
Very unpleasant and likely to make people feel disgusted
Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making people feel sick
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
3
8.8
A large, hairy humanlike creature that people say lives in the Himalayas
How Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
abominable = abominate (opaque) = abomin + able
The connection to 'abominate' is not transparent for most learners, and the root 'abomin' is not recognizable as a morpheme in English.
Etymology
The word abominable comes from Latin parts ab- ('away') and omen ('sign' or 'warning') because people used it for things seen as a bad sign you should turn away from. So, abominable now describes something very bad or shocking that people strongly dislike.