abominable

abominable
adjective
  1. causing moral revulsion
    令人发指的
    the uprising was suppressed with abominable cruelty.
    起义遭到令人发指的残酷镇压。
    ■(informal)terrible
    (非正式)糟糕的,极坏的
    what an abominable mess!.
    真是一团糟!。
派生
abominably
adverb
语源
  1. Middle English : via Old French from Latin abominabilis, from abominari (see abominate).The term was once widely believed to be from ab- 'away from' + Latin homine (from homo 'human being'), thus 'inhuman, beastly', and frequently spelled abhominable until the 17th cent
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