Definitions for: 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

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: atrocious, awful, bad, detestable, dreadful, execrable, hateful, odious, painful, terrible, unspeakable

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