| 单词 | abominably |
| 释义 | abominably (once / 5683 pages) adv When you act abominably, you do something really terrible to someone else. When politicians lie, they are behaving abominably. You can use the adverb abominably to describe anything that's done badly, whether it's truly hateful or simply careless. If a football team loses 0-72, it played abominably, and if a parent abuses her child, she treats the child abominably. At the root of abominably is the adjective abominable, which comes from the the Late Latin abominabilis, "deserving abhorrence." It used to be mistakenly spelled "abhominable" from a belief that its origin included the Latin homine, or "human." WORD FAMILYabominable: abominablest, abominably+/abominate: abominable, abominated, abominates, abominating, abomination, abominator/abomination: abominations/abominator: abominators USAGE EXAMPLESRosa Parks and her allied nonconformists had themselves been treated abominably by their government. Washington Post(Sep 06, 2016) She’s in touch with the part of herself where “snobbery and superstition overlap most abominably.” New York Times(Jul 14, 2016) I peer in at the old bedstead and table: life was abominably hard here, and people were often forced to leave when their luck turned. The Guardian(May 08, 2016) 1adv in an offensive and hateful manner I don't know anyone who could have behaved so abominably Syn detestably, odiously, repulsively 2adv in a terrible manner Syn abysmally, atrociously, awfully, rottenly, terribly |
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