abhominable
/əbˈhɒmɪnəbəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This is abhominable, which he [Don Armado] would call abominable."
- "[...] your Lordship [is] twice guilty of treachery both in withholding the dominion of Narnia from the said Caspian and in the most abhominable, —don’t forget to spell it with an H, Doctor— bloody, and unnatural murder of your kindly lord and brother King Caspian Ninth of that name."
Etymology
First attested in the 1300s, a variant of abominable, influenced by Latin ab + homine (“man”); compare abhominal. The unnecessary addition of h to words was once common; compare abholish (abolish). Abandoned by the 1600s. Compare also abhomination.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ab
Usage
Inflected Forms
more abhominable (comparative)
most abhominable (superlative)