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# abominable

adjective (abominable, more abominable, most abominable)

«abominable» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Abominable means very bad, hateful or extremely unpleasant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abominable/#m1)
2. (informal) Abominable can mean very poor or disagreeable, as in «abominable weather». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abominable/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abominable/#x1)
- It was abominable of him to doubt her. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abominable/#x2)
- The weather today is abominable. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abominable/#x3)
- The beetle called the world an abominable place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abominable/#x4)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x1)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x2)
- How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water! (Writings JOB.15.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x3)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x4)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/#x5)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «abominable» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abominable/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«abominable» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/abominable.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «abominable» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/abominable/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«abominable» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/abominable.html) on Mova free.