Abominate

Definition: Abominate

Abominate

Verb

1. Find repugnant.

Date "abominate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Note: Abominate \A*bom"i*nate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Abominated; present participle verb or noun Abominating.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Abominate (abominor, I pray that the omen may be averted; used on mentioning anything unlucky). As ill-omened things are disliked, so, by a simple figure of speech, what we dislike we consider ill-omened. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Abominate

Synonyms: abhor (v), execrate (v), loathe (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dislike	Loathe, nauseate, abominate, detest, abhor; hate; take amiss; have enough of; (be satiated).
Hate	Verb: hate, detest, abominate, abhor, loathe; recoil at, shudder at; shrink from, view with horror, hold in abomination, revolt against, execrate;scowl; disrelish; (dislike).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Abominate

English words defined with "abominate": Abominated, Abominating. (references)

Etymologies containing "abominate": Abominable, Abomination. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Money! I hate, loathe, despise and abominate money! (Meet Me in St. Louis; writing credit: Sally Benson; Irving Brecher)
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Title	Author	Quote
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	He professed both to abominate and despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue, either in a prince or a minister.
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"Abominate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abominate" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	2	245,945

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "abominate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		urrej (abhor, detest, execrate, hate, loathe), ndjej të ndotë. (various references)

Arabic		‏كره (abhor, aversion, be offensive, be repugnant, be repulsive, become hateful, coerce, compel, constrain, despise, detest, disfavor, disfavour, disincline, dislike, drive, force, hate, hating, loathe, swagger), ‏مقت (abhor, aversion, be detested, detest, detestation, hate, odium, repugnance), ‏شائن (black, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, hideous, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, nefarious, outrageous). (various references)

Bulgarian		гнуся се от (abhor), отвращавам се от (disrelish, distaste, execrate, loathe), ненавиждам (abhor, execrate, hate, loathe), не обичам (dislike, disrelish). (various references)

Czech		hrozit se (abhor), hnusit si (abhor, detest). (various references)

Danish		afsky (abhor, abhorrence, abomination, horror, loathe). (various references)

Dutch		verafschuwen (abhor, loathe), een afschuw hebben van (abhor, loathe). (various references)

Esperanto		abomeni (abhor, loathe). (various references)

Finnish		inhota (abhor, detest, have a loathing for, loathe). (various references)

French		abominer (abhor). (various references)

Frisian		ferspuie (abhor, loathe). (various references)

German		verabscheuen (abhor, detest, execrate, hate, loathe, nauseate, to abhor, to abominate, to detest). (various references)

Greek		απεχθάνομαι (abhor, detest, execrate). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�'עול (abhor, detest, loathe). (various references)

Hungarian		utál (abhor, detest, execrate, hate, loathe, nauseate, to abhor, to abominate, to detest, to hate, to loathe, to nauseate), gyûlölt (hated). (various references)

Icelandic		mér býður við (abhor, loathe), hrylla (abhor, loathe), hafa andstyggð á (abhor, dislike, loathe). (various references)

Indonesian		menjijikkan (abhor, abominable, detest, detestable, disgust, disgusting, displease, execrable, insulting, loathing, odious, reprehensible, repugnant, satiate, scandalize), membencikan (hate, odious). (various references)

Italian		detestare (abhor, detest, hate, loathe), abominare. (various references)

Manx		cur dwoaie da (detest, hate). (various references)

Norwegian		avsky (abhor, detest, disgust, loathe, loathing). (various references)

Pig Latin		abominateay.(various references)

Portuguese		detestar (abhor, detest, distaste, find time, hate, loathe), abominar (abhor, detest, hate, loathe). (various references)

Romanian		detesta (abhor, detest, execrate, hate, hold in abhorrence, loathe). (various references)

Russian		питать отвращение (abhor, detest, distaste, execrate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mrzeti (abhor, detest, hate, loathe), gnušati se (be detested, execrate, loathe). (various references)

Spanish		detestar (abhor, detest, dislike, hate, loathe), abominar (abhor, curse, scold, tell off). (various references)

Swedish		avsky (abhor, abhorance, abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, be detested, detest, detestation, disgust, disrelish, execrate, execration, hate, loathe, loathing, repugnance). (various references)

Turkish		tiksinmek (be disgusted, hate one's guts, loathe, revolt), nefret etmek (abhor, detest, execrate, hate, hold smth. in detestation, loathe, revolt, revolt against), iğrenmek (abhor, be disgusted, detest, execrate, hate, hold smth. in detestation, loathe, nauseate, revolt, revolt against). (various references)

Ukranian		відчувати огиду (keck, revolt), ненавидіти (abhor, detest, execrate, hate, loathe). (various references)

Vietnamese		kinh tởm (abominable, carrion, sickening). (various references)

Welsh		ffieiddio (abhor, loathe). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	abominare, abominari, abominor. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "abominate": abominated, abominates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Abominate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abdominate, abiminate, abominale, abominatle, abomniate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "abominate" (pronounced 'A*bom"i*nate'): Abacinate, Accriminate, Adnate, Agnominate, Alloxanate, Aluminate, Annominate, Antimonate, Arsenate, Assonate, Attaminate, Biacuminate, Bicarinate, Bicrenate, bigeminate, Binate, Biternate, Bituminate, Bombinate, Brevipennate, Brominate, Cacuminate, Calcinate, Carnate, Catenate, Coadunate, Coinquinate, Combinate, Compaginate, Comperendinate, Concatenate, Concinnate, Concionate, Concubinate, Connate, Conterminate, Criminate, Cyanate, Declinate, Defibrinate, Deglutinate, Delignate, Deplanate, Deracinate, Discarnate, Disordinate, Disseminate, Disterminate, Donate, Effascinate, Egerminate, Eliminate, Emanate, Enate, Exacinate, Examinate, Excarnate, Explanate, Exterminate, Extravenate, Fascinate, Feminate, Ferricyanate, Ferrocyanate, Ferruminate, Festinate, Foreordinate, fortunate, Fraternate, Gangrenate, Glutinate, Gratinate, Gubernate, hallucinate, HIBERNATE, Hydrocyanate, Imaginate, imparipinnate, Impennate, importunate, Incontaminate, Incoordinate, Incoronate, incriminate, indeterminate, indiscriminate, indoctrinate, Inembryonate, Infortunate, Ingerminate, Innominate, Inopinate, inordinate, Inquinate, Inracinate, inseminate, insubordinate, Interseminate, Isosulphocyanate, Longipennate, Luminate, magnate, malonate, manganate, marinate, Meconate, Mesaconate, Mesitylenate, Metantimonate, Metastannate, misfortunate, Muconate, Multicarinate, Nominate, Nundinate, Obsignate, Obstinate, Ominate, Opisthopulmonate, Ovate-acuminate, Ovato-acuminate, Oxonate, Paripinnate, Patrocinate, Permanganate, Peronate, Persulphocyanate, Pertinate, Planipennate, Polyembryonate, Postnate, Predesignate, Predeterminate, Preindesignate, Preominate, Preordinate, Profanate, Pronate, Propionate, Pruinate, Pulmonate, Pyroantimonate, Pyroarsenate, Quadripennate, Quaternate, Quinate, ratiocinate, Reclinate, Regerminate, Reilluminate, Reimpregnate, rejuvenate, Renate, Repugnate, Reseminate, Restagnate, Resupinate, Revaccinate, Rhodanate, runcinate, Saccharinate, Saccharonate, Saginate, Santonate, Selenate, Semilunate, Seminate, Septennate, Signate, Spinate, Stannate, Statuminate, Styphnate, Succinate, Sufflaminate, Sulphantimonate, Sulpharsenate, Sulphinate, Sulphocyanate, Sulphonate, Sulphostannate, Superseminate, Tannate, Tartronate, Terebinthinate, ternate, Tibicinate, Transfeminate, Tribunate, Triclinate, Tripennate, tripinnate, Triplicate-ternate, Triternate, Tubicinate, Uncinate, Undeterminate, unfortunate, Unordinate, Unportunate, Uranate, urinate, Uroxanate, vaccinate, Vaticinate, Verbenate, Verminate, Vernate, Vertiginate, Xeronate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-i-m-n-o-t"
	-2 letters: ambient, amboina, amentia, amniote, amoeban, animate, animato, boatman, boatmen, niobate.
	-3 letters: ameban, amoeba, anemia, anomie, bantam, batman, batmen, bemata, bemoan, binate, bonita, entomb, etamin, inmate, intomb, manito, obtain, omenta, taenia, tamein.
	-4 letters: abate, abeam, aboma, amain, ambit, ameba, ament, amine, amino, amnia, amnio, anima, anime, antae, atman, atone, baton, beano, beton, biome, biont, biota, boite, entia, manat, mania, manta, matin, meant, menta, minae, monie, monte, oaten, tenia, tinea, toman.
	-5 letters: abet, aeon, ambo, amen, amia, amie, amin, anoa, anta, ante, anti, atma, atom, bait, bane, bani, bate, beam, bean, beat, bema, bent, beta, bima, bine, bint, bite, boat, bone, bota, ebon, emit, etna, iamb, into, iota, item, mabe, main, mana, mane, mano, mate, mean, meat, meno, meta, mien, mina, mine, mint, mite, moan, moat, mote, nabe, name, naoi, neat, nema, nite, noma, nome, nota, note, obia, obit, omen, omit, tain, tame, team, time, tine, toea, tomb, tome, tone.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-i-m-n-o-t"
	+1 letter: abominated, abominates.
	+2 letters: embarkation.
	+3 letters: balletomania, embarkations.
	+4 letters: abnormalities, antimetabolic, balletomanias, perambulation.
	+5 letters: antimetabolics, antimetabolite, cyanobacterium, disembarkation, neurofibromata, perambulations, retinoblastoma.
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