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abominable
adjective
1 abominable
Unequivocally detestable:
— Abominable treatment of prisoners.
synonyms: detestable, execrable, odious.
Roget 649:
hurtful,
harmful,
scathful†,
baneful,
baleful;
injurious,
deleterious,
detrimental,
noxious,
pernicious,
mischievous,
full of mischief,
mischief-making,
malefic,
malignant,
nocuous,
noisome;
prejudicial;
disserviceable†,
disadvantageous;
wide-wasting.
unlucky,
sinister;
obnoxious;
untoward,
disastrous.
oppressive,
burdensome,
onerous;
malign
etc.
(malevolent)
907.
corrupting
etc.
(corrupt)
etc.
659;
virulent,
venomous,
envenomed,
corrosive;
poisonous
etc.
(morbific)
657†;
deadly
etc.
(killing)
361;
destructive
etc.
(destroying)
162;
inauspicious
etc.
859.
bad,
ill,
arrant,
as bad as bad can be,
dreadful;
horrid,
horrible;
dire;
rank,
peccant,
foul,
fulsome;
rotten,
rotten at the core.
vile,
base,
villainous;
mean
etc.
(paltry)
643;
injured
&c.;
deteriorated
etc.
659;
unsatisfactory,
exceptionable indifferent;
below par
etc.
(imperfect)
651;
illcontrived,
ill-conditioned;
wretched,
sad,
grievous,
deplorable,
lamentable;
pitiful,
pitiable,
woeful
etc.
(painful)
830.
evil,
wrong;
depraved
etc.
945;
shocking;
reprehensible
etc.
(disapprove)
932.
hateful,
hateful as a toad;
abominable,
detestable,
execrable,
cursed,
accursed,
confounded;
damned,
damnable;
infernal;
diabolic
etc.
(malevolent)
907.
unadvisable
etc.
(inexpedient)
647;
unprofitable
etc.
(useless)
645;
incompetent
etc.
(unskillful)
699;
irremediable
etc.
(hopeless)
859.
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Roget 653:
dirty,
filthy,
grimy;
unclean,
impure;
soiled
etc.
v.;
not to be handled with kid gloves;
dusty,
snuffy†,
smutty,
sooty,
smoky;
thick,
turbid,
dreggy;
slimy;
mussy [U.S.].
slovenly,
untidy,
messy,
uncleanly.
[of people]
unkempt,
sluttish,
dowdy,
draggle-tailed;
uncombed.
unscoured†,
unswept†,
unwiped†,
unwashed,
unstrained,
unpurified†;
squalid;
lutose†,
slammocky†,
slummocky†,
sozzly†.
nasty,
coarse,
foul,
offensive,
abominable,
beastly,
reeky,
reechy†;
fetid
etc.
401.
[of rotting living matter]
decayed,
moldy,
musty,
mildewed,
rusty,
moth-eaten,
mucid†,
rancid,
weak,
bad,
gone bad,
etercoral†,
lentiginous†,
touched,
fusty,
effete,
reasty†,
rotten,
corrupt,
tainted,
high,
flyblown,
maggoty;
putrid,
putrefactive,
putrescent,
putrefied;
saprogenic,
saprogenous†;
purulent,
carious,
peccant;
fecal,
feculent;
stercoraceous†,
excrementitious†;
scurfy,
scurvy,
impetiginous†;
gory,
bloody;
rotting
etc.
v.;
rotten as a pear,
rotten as cheese.
crapulous
etc.
(intemperate)
954†;
gross
etc.
(impure in mind)
961;
fimetarious†,
fimicolous†.
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Roget 898:
hating
etc.
v.;
abhorrent;
averse from
etc.
(disliking)
867;
set against.
bitter
etc.
(acrimonious)
895;
implacable
etc.
(revengeful)
919.
unloved,
unbeloved,
unlamented,
undeplored,
unmourned†,
uncared for,
unendeared†,
un-valued;
disliked
etc.
867.
crossed in love,
forsaken,
rejected,
lovelorn,
jilted.
obnoxious,
hateful,
odious,
abominable,
repulsive,
offensive,
shocking;
disgusting
etc.
(disagreeable)
830;
reprehensible.
invidious,
spiteful;
malicious
etc.
907.
insulting,
irritating,
provoking.
[Mutual hate]
at daggers drawn;
not on speaking terms
etc.
(enmity)
889;
at loggerheads.
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2 abominable
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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