 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
abominable
adjective
1: unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of
prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";
"consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund
Burke [syn: {detestable}, {execrable}, {odious}]
2: 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" [syn: {atrocious},
{awful}, {dreadful}, {painful}, {terrible}, {unspeakable}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abominable \A*bom"i*na*ble\, adjective [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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
171 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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