{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY January 4, 2019- abominable

WORD OF THE DAY January 4, 2019

abominable    adjective | uh-BAH-muh-nuh-bul     Definition   1 formal : worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable   2 : very bad or unpleasant   Scroll down for more about abominable      TRENDING NOW: amoral nebulous synergy slumgullion SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   More Useful Words You've Probably Never Used       The Scoop on 'The Proof Is in the Pudding'     19 Words for the Cranky and Disagreeable       The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 12/28/18         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Winter Words Quiz   Winter has returned along with cold weather. Wrap yourself in a blanket and challenge yourself with our 14-question quiz about words relating to winter.     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   The tendency to hate evil omens is a vital part of the history of abominable. The word descends from the Latin verb abominari, which means "to deprecate as an ill omen" or "to detest"; abominari itself comes from ab- plus omin- ("from an omen"). When English speakers adopted abominable in the 14th century, they used it to express their disgust over evil or truly detestable things—and for 500 years that's the way things stood. In the 17th century, the word's meaning moderated, so that Scottish novelist William Black could write in A Princess of Thule (1873), "Sheila had nothing to do with the introduction of this abominable decoration." Other descendants of abominari are abominate ("to hate or loathe intensely") and abomination ("something odious or detestable").     Examples of ABOMINABLE   The children were informed that they had lost all television and computer privileges for a week because of their abominable treatment of the babysitter.   "In the original [movie "Overboard"], Goldie Hawn … stars as a spoiled, insufferable heiress who hires carpenter [Kurt] Russell to remodel a closet on her yacht. She's abominable to him at every turn, refuses to pay him and eventually pushes him off the ship." — Jeanne Jakle, The San Antonio Express News, 3 May 2018   Name That Synonym   Unscramble the letters to create a synonym of abominable: SAUTOOICR.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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