Word Meanings - ABOMINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. 2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred;

Additional info about word: ABOMINATION

1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. 2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak. 3. A cause of pollution or wickedness. Syn. -- Detestation; loathing; abhorrence; disgust; aversion; loathsomeness; odiousness. Sir W. Scott.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABOMINATION)

• Disgust
• Nausea
• loathing
• abomination
• aversion
• dislike
• repugnance
• abhorrence
• distaste
• Enormity
• Atrocity
• perpetration
• sin
• Loathing
• disgust
• qualm
• sea-sickness

Related words: (words related to ABOMINATION)

• QUALM
  1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve . Chaucer. 2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton. 3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who,
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• NAUSEANT
  A substance which produces nausea.
• ABOMINATION
  1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. 2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred;
• AVERSION
  1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of
• DISTASTEFUL
  1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or
• DISGUSTFUL
  Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.
• ATROCITY
  1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty. 2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.
• NAUSEATION
  The act of nauseating, or the state of being nauseated.
• DISLIKENESS
  Unlikeness. Locke.
• DISGUST
  To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly
• DISGUSTFULNESS
  The state of being disgustful.
• LOATHER
  One who loathes.
• DISLIKELIHOOD
  The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
• QUALMISH
  Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit. Shak. -- Qualm"ish*ly, adv. -- Qualm"ish*ness, n.
• NAUSEA
  Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.
• NAUSEATIVE
  Causing nausea; nauseous.
• LOATHNESS
  Unwillingness; reluctance. A general silence and loathness to speak. Bacon.
• LOATHLINESS
  Loathsomeness.
• DISTASTEIVE
  Tending to excite distaste. -- n.
• CONTRAVERSION
  A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.
• SELF-ABHORRENCE
  Abhorrence of one's self.