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abominate

/əˈbɒm.əˌneɪt/

abominate adjective: abominable; detested.

Adjective

abominate (comparative more abominate, superlative most abominate)

  1. (rare) Abominable; detested.

Verb

abominate (third-person singular simple present abominates, present participle abominating, simple past and past participle abominated)

  1. (transitive) To feel disgust towards; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread.
    • "Much as I abominate writing, I would not give up Mr. Collins's correspondence for any consideration."1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    Synonyms:
    abhor, loathe, detest
  2. (colloquial, transitive) To dislike strongly.
    • I absolutely abominate waking up early on weekends.

abominate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

abominate in Tamil

தீவிரமாக வெறு, அருவருப்படை

abominate in Urdu

گھن آنا, کراہت کرنا, نفرت کرنا

abominate in Bengali

ঘৃণায় পরিহার করা, অত্যন্ত ঘৃণা করা

abominate in Malayalam

അറയ്ക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
abominate in Tagalog
maani, masuklam
abominate in Arabic
مَقَت maqat, تَطَيَّر taṭayyar
abominate in Vietnamese
căm ghét

Synonyms of abominate

Forms of abominate

Adjective
comparativemore abominate
superlativemost abominate
Verb
third-person singular presentabominates
present participleabominating
past participleabominated
pastabominated

Origin of abominate

First attested in 1644. Perhaps a back-formation from abomination. Alternatively, perhaps from Late Latin abōminātus, past participle of abōminarī (“to deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab + ominari (“to forebode, presage”), from omen.

Words formed from abominate

Questions about abominate

What does abominate mean?
Abominate means abominable; detested.
What is abominate in Tamil?
Abominate in Tamil is தீவிரமாக வெறு, அருவருப்படை. See Abominate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is abominate?
Abominate can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce abominate?
Abominate is pronounced /əˈbɒm.əˌneɪt/ (US).

Words near abominate in the dictionary

  1. abominable snowmen
  2. abominable snowpeople
  3. abominable snowperson
  4. abominableness
  5. abominably
  6. abominate
  7. abominated
  8. abominates
  9. abominating
  10. abominatio
  11. abomination

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abominate (page history and authors); abominate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abominate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abominate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abominate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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