| 单词 | abominate |
| 释义 | abominate (once / 538 pages) v When you abominate something, you really, really hate it. You might abominate your curfew, or the substitute teacher for your math class. Picture a preacher telling you to "Abominate sin!" Abominate comes from the Latin verb abominari, which comes from ab-, meaning “away from,” and omin, meaning “omen.” You might consider something you abominate –– the sound of nails on a chalkboard, for many –– to be as thoroughly bad as a bad omen itself. You avoid that sound at all costs, the way some people avoid a black cat crossing the street. WORD FAMILYabominate: abominable, abominated, abominates, abominating, abomination, abominator+/abominable: abominablest, abominably/abomination: abominations/abominator: abominators USAGE EXAMPLESFor my part, I abominate all honourable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. Time(Oct 18, 2016) Proposition 45 is abominated by the insurance industry, which has provided virtually all of the $37 million collected to fight the initiative. Los Angeles Times(Oct 10, 2014) I know everybody uses scent nowadays, but my mother, whose sense of smell is even more acute than her hearing, abominates scent. MacKenzie, Compton, The Vanity Girl(2012) v find repugnant Syn|Hyper abhor, execrate, loathe detest, hate dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards |
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