ABOMINABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abominable mean? 

• ABOMINABLE (adjective)
  The adjective ABOMINABLE has 2 senses:

1. unequivocally detestable

2. exceptionally bad or displeasing

  Familiarity information: ABOMINABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABOMINABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unequivocally detestable

Synonyms:

abominable; detestable; execrable; odious

Context example:

consequences odious to those you govern

Similar:

hateful (evoking or deserving hatred)

Derivation:

abominate (find repugnant)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Exceptionally bad or displeasing

Synonyms:

abominable; atrocious; awful; dreadful; painful; terrible; unspeakable

Context example:

an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room

Similar:

bad (having undesirable or negative qualities)

 Context examples 

"It was altogether abominable, and I don't deserve to be spoken to for a month, but you will, though, won't you?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Oh! Charles, I declare it will be too abominable if you do, when you promised to go.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an abominable crime.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I could have sworn that it was set in a malicious and abominable smile.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Above all, I could not conceal from myself that his past life was not such as to make even so abominable a crime as this impossible to him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“What I heard was abominable,” said Utterson.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And they will now see their cousin treated as she ought to be, and I wish they may be heartily ashamed of their own abominable neglect and unkindness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Jane, I will not trouble you with abominable details: some strong words shall express what I have to say.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)