"abominate" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /əˈbɒm.əˌneɪt/ [US], /əˈbɒm.ɪˌneɪt/ [US], /ə.ˈbɒm.ə.ˌneɪt/ [adjective], /ə.ˈbɒm.ɪ.ˌneɪt/ [adjective], /ə.ˈbɒm.ə.nət/ [adjective] Audio: en-us-abominate.ogg [US] Forms: more abominate [comparative], most abominate [superlative]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|abomination|nocap=1}} back-formation from abomination, {{der|en|LL.|abōminātus}} Late Latin abōminātus, {{m|la|abōminarī||to deprecate as an ill omen}} abōminarī (“to deprecate as an ill omen”), {{m|la|ab}} ab, {{m|la|ominari||to forebode, presage}} ominari (“to forebode, presage”), {{m|la|omen}} omen Head templates: {{en-adj}} abominate (comparative more abominate, superlative most abominate)
  1. (rare) Abominable; detested. Tags: rare
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Verb

IPA: /əˈbɒm.əˌneɪt/ [US], /əˈbɒm.ɪˌneɪt/ [US], /ə.ˈbɒm.ə.ˌneɪt/ [adjective], /ə.ˈbɒm.ɪ.ˌneɪt/ [adjective], /ə.ˈbɒm.ə.nət/ [adjective] Audio: en-us-abominate.ogg [US] Forms: abominates [present, singular, third-person], abominating [participle, present], abominated [participle, past], abominated [past]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|abomination|nocap=1}} back-formation from abomination, {{der|en|LL.|abōminātus}} Late Latin abōminātus, {{m|la|abōminarī||to deprecate as an ill omen}} abōminarī (“to deprecate as an ill omen”), {{m|la|ab}} ab, {{m|la|ominari||to forebode, presage}} ominari (“to forebode, presage”), {{m|la|omen}} omen Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: transitive Synonyms: abhor Synonyms (to abhor): abhor, loathe, detest Translations (to feel disgust towards, to hate in the highest degree): ἀποπτύω (apoptúō) (Ancient Greek), مَقَت (maqat) (Arabic), تَطَيَّر (taṭayyar) (Arabic), отвращавам се (otvraštavam se) (Bulgarian), гнуся се от (gnusja se ot) (Bulgarian), ненавиждам (nenaviždam) (Bulgarian), abominar (Catalan), 憎恨 (zēnghèn) (Chinese Mandarin), 厭惡 (Chinese Mandarin), 厌恶 (yànwù) (Chinese Mandarin), 討厭 (Chinese Mandarin), 讨厌 (tǎoyàn) (Chinese Mandarin), igrenmek (Crimean Tatar), verachten (Dutch), verafschuwen (Dutch), abomeni (Esperanto), vihata (Finnish), inhota (Finnish), kammoksua (Finnish), abominer (French), verabscheuen (German), απεχθάνομαι (apechthánomai) (Greek), תיעב (tiév) (Hebrew), undorodik (Hungarian), irtózik (Hungarian), utál (Hungarian), gyűlöl (Hungarian), abominar (Ido), abominar (Interlingua), detestar (Interlingua), abominare (Italian), 忌み嫌う (imikirau) (Japanese), 唾棄する (daki suru) (Japanese), abōminor (Latin), føle avsky (Norwegian), avsky (Norwegian), abominar (Portuguese), пита́ть отвраще́ние (pitátʹ otvraščénije) (Russian), ненави́деть (nenavídetʹ) (Russian), не выноси́ть (ne vynosítʹ) (Russian), abominar (Spanish), detestar (Spanish), avsky (Swedish), maani [literally] (Tagalog), masuklam [literally] (Tagalog), căm ghét (Vietnamese), naudön (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-abominate-en-verb-hSCv~PDI Categories (other): English back-formations Disambiguation of English back-formations: 47 39 14 Disambiguation of 'to abhor': 75 25 Disambiguation of 'to feel disgust towards, to hate in the highest degree': 91 9
  2. (transitive, colloquial) To dislike strongly. Tags: colloquial, transitive Translations (to dislike strongly): gruwelen van (Dutch), walgen van (Dutch)
    Sense id: en-abominate-en-verb-6MSb3I6d Categories (other): English back-formations Disambiguation of English back-formations: 47 39 14 Disambiguation of 'to dislike strongly': 6 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: abominator Related terms: abomination

Inflected forms

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          "roman": "apechthánomai",
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          "sense": "to feel disgust towards, to hate in the highest degree",
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          "sense": "to feel disgust towards, to hate in the highest degree",
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          "roman": "pitátʹ otvraščénije",
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          "roman": "nenavídetʹ",
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          "roman": "ne vynosítʹ",
          "sense": "to feel disgust towards, to hate in the highest degree",
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      "word": "пита́ть отвраще́ние"
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.