abominable
part of speech
adjective (abominable, more abominable, most abominable)
meaning for a pupil
1) Abominable means very bad, hateful or extremely unpleasant. tree →
2) (informal) Abominable can mean very poor or disagreeable, as in «abominable weather». tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It describes things God forbids, such as forbidden foods or the cruel practices of the nations of Canaan. Interpretation: Tradition treats these as things that make a person or the land spiritually unfit, which is why Israel is told to keep away from them. In the primary lessons: a wicked enchantress, a cruel act or a bad world seen by a character who is disgusted by it
examples
- Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. (Torah DEU.14.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- Therefore shall ye keep My charge, that ye do not any of these abominable customs, which were done before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God. (Torah LEV.18.30, JPS 1917) tree →
- How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water! (Writings JOB.15.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- But Levi and Benjamin he did not number among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab. (Writings 1CH.21.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? (Prophets MIC.6.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- The witch's trick was abominable. tree →
- It was abominable of him to doubt her. tree →
- The weather today is abominable. tree →
- The beetle called the world an abominable place. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
- Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
- Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
- How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!
- But Levi and Benjamin he did not number among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «abominable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.