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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
abominable /əˈbɒm(ə)nəb(ə)l/
adjective causing moral revulsion.

informal very bad; terrible.

– derivatives
abominably adverb.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. abominabilis, from abominari ‘deprecate’, from ab- ‘away, from’ + omen, omin- ‘omen’.



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