abominable — ONAD

abominable /əˈbäm(ə)nəb(ə)l, əˈbɑm(ə)nəb(ə)l

▸ adjective causing moral revulsion:

the uprising was suppressed with abominable cruelty.

▪ very bad or unpleasant:

a cup of abominable tea.

– ORIGIN 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 century.