abominable

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
21
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/əˈbɑm.ə.nə.bl̩/ (US)
See all 3 pronunciations
/əˈbɑm.ə.nə.bl̩/ (US) · /əˈbɑm.nə.bl̩/ (US) · /ɘˈbɔm.ɘ.nɘ.bɯ/

Definition of abominable

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
    “abominable crime”
    “utterly abominable”
    “He committed an abominable act of cruelty.”
    “But the feareful, and vnbeleeuing, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and ſorcerers, and idolaters, and all lyars, ſhall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimſtone: which is the ſecond death.”
    “The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.”
See all 4 definitions

adj

  1. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
    “abominable crime”
    “utterly abominable”
    “He committed an abominable act of cruelty.”
    “But the feareful, and vnbeleeuing, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and ſorcerers, and idolaters, and all lyars, ſhall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimſtone: which is the ſecond death.”
    “The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.”
  2. (obsolete)Excessive, large (used as an intensifier).
  3. Very bad or inferior.
  4. Disagreeable or unpleasant.
    “abominable weather”
    “The prisoners were kept in abominable conditions.”
    “I want to go faster on my bike than a person with a beard. I want to be the first to own whatever’s the next spiraliser. I want it all: a carapace of insouciance over rock-hard triceps. This is an abominable thing to want, vain in every sense. But I’m going to set out to do whatever it takes not to decay faster than other people, and report it accurately and fairly.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English abhomynable, from Old French abominable, from Late Latin abōminābilis (“deserving abhorrence”), from abōminor (“abhor, deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ōminor (“forebode,…

See full etymology

From Middle English abhomynable, from Old French abominable, from Late Latin abōminābilis (“deserving abhorrence”), from abōminor (“abhor, deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ōminor (“forebode, predict, presage”), from ōmen (“sign, token, omen”). Formerly erroneously folk-etymologized as deriving from Latin ab- + homo, literally "away from humankind," and therefore spelled abhominable, abhominal (Hence, Shakespeare puns on this when Hamlet speaks of incompetent actors that "imitate humanity abominably.")

Words you can make from abominable

200+ playable · top: BAMBINO (13 pts)

Best play bambino 13 points

7-letter words

9 words

6-letter words

29 words

5-letter words

57 words

4-letter words

104 words

Find your best play with abominable

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes abominable, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.