About The Word Abominable
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Abominable
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What's The Definition Of Abominable?
[adj] exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
[adj] unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke Synonyms | Synonyms for Abominable: atrocious | awful | bad | detestable | dreadful | execrable | hateful | odious | painful | terrible | unspeakable Related Terms | Find terms related to Abominable: aberrant | abhorrent | abject | abnormal | accursed | arrant | atrocious | awful | bad | base | beastly | beggarly | below contempt | beneath contempt | black | blamable | blameworthy | brutal | cheesy | contemptible | criminal | crude | crummy | cursed | damnable | dark | debased | degraded | delinquent | deplorable | depraved | despicable | detestable | deviant | dire | dirty | disagreeable | disgraceful | disgusting | distasteful | dreadful | egregious | enormous | evil | execrable | fetid | filthy | flagitious | flagrant | forbidding | foul | frightful | fulsome | grave | grievous | gross | hardly the thing | hateful | heinous | horrible | horrid | ignoble | ignominious | illegal | improper | in bad taste | inappropriate | incorrect | indecorous | infamous | iniquitous | knavish | lamentable | little | loathsome | lousy | low | low-down | lumpen | malodorous | mangy | mean | measly | mephitic | miasmal | miasmic | miserable | monstrous | nasty | naughty | nauseating | nauseous | nefarious | noisome | not done | not the thing | notorious | noxious | objectionable | obnoxious | obscene | odious | off-base | off-color | offensive | out-of-line | outrageous | paltry | peccant | petty | pitiable | pitiful | poky | poor | rank | rebarbative | regrettable | repellent | reprehensible | reprobate | reptilian | repugnant | repulsive | revolting | rotten | sacrilegious | sad | scabby | scandalous | schlock | scrubby | scruffy | scummy | scurvy | shabby | shameful | shameless | shocking | shoddy | sickening | sinful | small | sordid | squalid | stinking | terrible | too bad | unclean | undue | unfit | unfitting | unforgivable | unlawful | unmentionable | unpardonable | unpleasant | unrighteous | unseemly | unspeakable | unsuitable | unworthy | vicious | vile | villainous | wicked | woeful | worst | worthless | wretched | wrong | wrongful See Also | Abominable In Webster's Dictionary \A*bom"i*na*ble\, a. [F. abominable. L. abominalis.
See {Abominate}.]
1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil
omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful;
detestable; loathsome; execrable.
2. Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive. [Obs.]
Note: Juliana Berners . . . informs us that in her time [15th
c.], ``abomynable syght of monkes'' was elegant English
for ``a large company of friars.'' --G. P. Marsh.
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