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(Latin: foreboding; augury; anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend or to indicate that something is going to happen which may be a good or an evil event or circumstance in the future)
"Nathan had the abominable habit of chewing his fingernails in public."
2. Extremely unpleasant or of very bad quality, or very unpleasant to experience: "The abominable food that was served in that restaurant tasted terrible and you can be sure that we will never go there again."3. A bad omen; nasty and disgusting; vile; loathsome: "The flood included abominable sewerage that was flowing into the basements and ground-floor rooms of the houses."
Between the 14th and the 17th centuries, abominable was often spelled abhominable, because of a widely held belief that it was derived from Latin ab hominem; literally, "away from humankind", therefore "unnatural, beastly". Shakespeare puns on this sense when Hamlet speaks of incompetent actors who "imitate humanity abominably."
"Allen has always abominated loud music and could not be tempted to attend a rock concert in the local park."
2. To detest thoroughly; to abhor: "There is nothing that abominates Nellie more than the thought of eating raw meat.""The crowd will be abominating the imposition of an early curfew by the local authorities."
For the ancient Romans, an omen was a sign from the gods or a promise of good or a warning of evil.
Naturally, they turned away in fear from an evil omen. To express this aversion, they combined ab, "away" plus omen, "a foreboding", into the verb abominari, meaning "to deprecate as ominous", "to abhor"; with a past participle abominatus, the source of English abominate. The word has largely lost its original connotation of dread and has come to mean "to loathe", "to despise".
2. People who thoroughly detest or abhor other people, things, systems, etc.: "An experienced team of abominators meet every month to plan protests and rallies against the laws protecting civic inequality."
2. Having unlucky omens; inauspicious.
3. Marked by or promising bad fortune.
2. A prognostic or foreboding.
3. A prophetic significance; presage: "He saw a bird of ill omen or an unfavorable sign of what was about to happen."
2. Having the significance of an omen.
2. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "divination, diviner; seer, soothsayer, prophecy, prophesy, prophet": augur-; auspic-; fa-, fate; Fates in action; futur-; -mancy; -phemia; sorc-, sorcery; vati-.