abominable
/əˈbɒmɪnəbl/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。
1.1
- informal terrible〈非正式〉糟糕的, 极坏的:
what an abominable mess!
真是一团糟!
派生词
abominably
adverb词源
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.