Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Abhorrence; disgust.
- n. A cause of abhorrence or disgust.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of abominating or the state of being abominated; the highest degree of aversion; detestation.
- n. That which is abominated or abominable; an object greatly disliked or abhorred; hence, hateful or shameful vice.
- n. In the Bible, often, that which is ceremonially impure; ceremonial impurity; defilement; that which defiles. Synonyms Detestation, loathing, disgust, abhorrence, repugnance, horror, aversion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing.
- n. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution.
- n. A cause of pollution or wickedness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. hate coupled with disgust
- n. an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence
- n. a person who is loathsome or disgusting
Examples
“To put forth this abomination is somehow equivalent to marriage denies the poverty of the homosexual relationship.”
““The head of Sci-Fi channel has contritely promised to includemore homosex in future shows, and to do it nonchalantly, just as if this abomination is normal and natural and worthy of no comment.” and:”
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“Rather than obliterate a quaint piece of lovely real estate to build an ugly blockhouse in it's place, why not save and improve the quaint piece of unreplacable property and build the new abomination where the old abomination is located?”
“One commentator at CNBC refers to the current administration as the "Obama Nation" (as in abomination).”
“While I appreciate and adore everyday street clothes, this abomination is something that should have remained at on the rack at Big Lots.”
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“So in effect, an abomination is going to settle a paradox.”
“Leviticus (18:22) the word abomination is an evolving word, abomination has come to mean something far different then the original translations (shâqats) means outside of the normal ritual.”
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“Similarly, someone who considers them an abomination is not likely to think mixing races makes them worse.”
“How anyone who claims to love the constitution can support the Campaign Finance Reform abomination is beyond me.”
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“Therefore, the Iraq invasion abomination is a sin against humanity that cannot be softened with the excuse of ignorance.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘abomination’.
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-tion
vacation, suggestion, donation, condition, education, examination, federation, generation, imagination, invention, operation, pollution and 166 more...
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
( open list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.co...ghastly, grisly, culeus, silly, gruesome, horrid, morbid, angelic, shocking, hideous, ghoulish, frightful and 135 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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Poe
dark descriptors
sepulchral, unutterable, decrepitude, abjection, abasement, lugubrious, moribund, recrudescence, prevaricator, doppelgänger, ululation, crepuscular and 11 more...
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A to abominator (Chambers)
aa gets over 40 hits
aardvark 49 hits
abbatoir 103 hits
abjure 138 hitsA, A 1, aa, A-line, A-list, A-lister, A-road, A-side, from A to B, from A to Z, A-bomb, A-effect and 254 more...
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Misanthropic
Lovecraft, Lovecraftian, bete noire
Lovecraftian, bête noire, festinate, hathos, misogynist, foredoom, decorticate, malingerer, nemophilist, mendicant, pendragon, stultify and 27 more...
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5000 FREE SAT Words
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 229 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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tranquill's Words
loquacious, unmitigated, trundle, ephemeral, vociferous, trapezoidal, liminal, obsequious, veracity, squash, onomatopoeia, oscillate and 267 more...
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miltonic
liberty, froth-becurlèd, host, huge-bellied, aghast, rills, gladsom, wrathfull, ordain, thunder-clasping, ruddy, warble and 264 more...
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vozcelik's Words
cranny, tummy, nook, sinister, cajole, frugal, chafe, wimp, booger, patriarchy, indifference, mire and 162 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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My GRE
concomitant, mendacity, corollary, mandate, ascertain, exacerbate, substantiate, perennial, exemplify, hegemony, acrimonious, repertoire and 653 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for abomination.
marky sodomyyyyyy! lolz Mar 15, 2011
ruzuzu I can't see this word without thinking of how it was paired with obamanation in this video. Mar 15, 2011
Kristianto2010 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven. In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him. Daniel 9:27.
Mar 15, 2011