Abomination

English

Noun

Abomination (plural Abominations)

1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
2. That which is abominable, shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; very often with religious undertones.

Adjectives for Abomination

heathenish; hideous; dark; whitewashed; nondescript; loathsome; indescribable; foul; monstrous; gross.

Verbs for Abomination

behold -; cast away -; commit -; delight in -; work -; multiply -; overspread -; perpetrate -; provoke to -; turn away from -.

Thesaurus

Anglophobia; Russophobia; abhorrence; allergy; anathema; annoyance; antagonism; anti-Semitism; antipathy; atrocity; aversion; bad; bane; befoulment; besmirchment; bete noire; bigotry; blight; bogey; bugaboo; bugbear; cold sweat; contamination; contempt; corruption; creeping flesh; crying evil; damage; defilement; desecration; despite; despitefulness; despoliation; destruction; detestation; detriment; dirtying; disdain; disfavor; disgrace; disgust; dislike; disrelish; distaste; enmity; error; evil; execration; grievance; harm; hate; hatred; havoc; horror; hostility; hurt; ignominy; ill; incubus; infamy; infection; iniquity; injury; knavery; loathing; malevolence; malice; malignity; misandry; misanthropy; mischief; misogyny; mortal horror; nausea; obliquity; odium; outrage; peccancy; peeve; pest; pet peeve; phobia; pity; plague; poison; pollution; profanation; race hatred; racism; reprobacy; repugnance; repulsion; revulsion; ritual uncleanness; sacrilege; scandal; scorn; shame; shuddering; sin; soiling; spite; spitefulness; terrible thing; the worst; toxin; trial; venom; vexation; vials of hate; vials of wrath; villainy; violation; woe; wrong; xenophobia

Etymology

Old English abominacioun, -cion, Latin abominatio. See abominate

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /əbɒmɪˈneɪʃn/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Synonyms

• detestation
• loathing
• abhorrence
• disgust
• aversion
• loathsomeness
• odiousness

See also

squalor, wickedness, aversion.

Translations

the feeling of extreme disgust

Bulgarian: отвращение (bg), ненавист (bg) Czech: odpor (cs) m., zhnusení (cs) n. Dutch: afschuw (nl), walging (nl)

Esperanto: abomeno (eo) Russian: отвращение (ru) n. Slovak: hnus (sk) m., odpor (sk) m.

something abominable

Czech: odpornost (cs) f., ohavnost (cs) f. Danish: afskyelighed (da), pestilens (da), vederstyggelighed (da) Dutch: (een) afschuwelijk iets Esperanto: abomeno (eo), abomenaĵo (eo) German: (die) Abscheulichkeit

Portuguese: abominação (pt) f. Russian: гадость (ru) f., мерзость (ru) f. Slovak: ohavnosť f. Spanish: abominación f., iniquidad f., maldad f. Sumerian: anzillu Vietnamese: sự ghê tởm, sự kinh tởm, sự ghét cay ghét đắng, vật kinh tởm, việc ghê tởm, hành động đáng ghét

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Noun

Abomination f. (plural Abominations)

1. Something vile and abominable; an abomination.
2. (chiefly religion) Revulsion, abomination, disgust.