abominable

Everyday

1. Abominable means very bad, hateful or extremely unpleasant. tree →
2. (informal) Abominable can mean very poor or disagreeable, as in «abominable weather». tree →

In the lessons

a wicked enchantress, a cruel act or a bad world seen by a character who is disgusted by it

Examples

• The witch's trick was abominable. tree →
• It was abominable of him to doubt her. tree →
• The weather today is abominable. tree →
• The beetle called the world an abominable place. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

In Jewish tradition

It describes things God forbids, such as forbidden foods or the cruel practices of the nations of Canaan.

Interpretation. Tradition treats these as things that make a person or the land spiritually unfit, which is why Israel is told to keep away from them.

Examples

• Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. (Torah DEU.14.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• Therefore shall ye keep My charge, that ye do not any of these abominable customs, which were done before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God. (Torah LEV.18.30, JPS 1917) tree →
• How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water! (Writings JOB.15.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• But Levi and Benjamin he did not number among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab. (Writings 1CH.21.6, JPS 1917) tree →
• Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? (Prophets MIC.6.10, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths