Word
abhominable
Phoneticsab·hom·inable
Definition
adj. extremely unpleasant or shocking. You use this to describe things that are so bad they make you feel sick or angry.
adj. causing extreme disgust or moral outrage; deeply offensive to the senses or conscience.
Examples
“The smell of the rotting garbage was abhominable.”
“The witness described the abhominable conditions in the prison where the prisoners were kept.”
“The novel's protagonist is a man of abhominable character, whose deceitful nature eventually leads to the ruin of his entire family.”
Examples
simple
“The smell of the rotting garbage was abhominable.”
contextual
“The witness described the abhominable conditions in the prison where the prisoners were kept.”
complex
“The novel's protagonist is a man of abhominable character, whose deceitful nature eventually leads to the ruin of his entire family.”
Etymology
First attested in the 1300s, a variant of abominable, influenced by Latin ab + homine (“man”); compare abhominal. The unnecessary addition of h to words was once common; compare abholish (abolish). Abandoned by the 1600s. Compare also abhomination.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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