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TOEFL BNC: 20689 COCA: 22815

abhorrent

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abhorrent /əbˈhorənt/ adjective
abhorrent
/əbˈhorənt/
adjective
Learner's definition of ABHORRENT
[more abhorrent; most abhorrent] formal
: causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred令人憎恨的;可恶的;讨厌的
sometimes + to
TOEFL BNC: 20689 COCA: 22815

abhorrent

adjective

ab·​hor·​rent əb-ˈhȯr-ənt How to pronounce abhorrent (audio)
-ˈhär-,
ab-
1
: causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred : being so repugnant as to stir up positive antagonism
acts abhorrent to every right-minded person
2
: not agreeable : contrary
a notion abhorrent to their philosophy
3
a
: feeling or showing strong dislike or hatred
b
archaic : strongly opposed
abhorrently adverb

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web This grotesque greed of the fossil fuel industry and their financiers is punishing the poorest and most vulnerable people, while destroying our only home. United Nations Secretary General António Guterres believes this state of affairs is abhorrent. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022 This would’ve been the crux of the defense approach: that Melzer had abhorrent views and associations, but was living an online fantasy and didn’t pose an actual threat to his fellow soldiers. Ali Winston, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2022 The 2022 World Cup is in Qatar, where dozens of migrant workers died building stadiums in abhorrent conditions. Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2022 If the photograph of the girl at the center of the controversy was unacceptable, abhorrent, then my own photographs, and the film of Caroline, were the same. Madeleine Watts, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022 When the individual who committed such an abhorrent act is in a position of power or celebrity, the decision to report an assault can become all the more challenging and intimidating. Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 10 May 2022 On one side are institutional gatekeepers who favor top-down control of speech on social media, filtering out abhorrent rhetoric and false information that could sway how citizens vote. Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2022 The arguments were not about the merit of honoring those whose action supported the abhorrent practice of slavery, the discussion Thursday was about the plain facts of the case. Ben Brasch, ajc, 19 May 2022 But race itself is a social construct, invented by European and early American colonialists and slave traders who needed to justify their abhorrent treatment of Africans and Native Americans. Keith Magee, CNN, 17 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Latin abhorrent-, abhorrens, present participle of abhorrēre "to abhor"

First Known Use

1599, in the meaning defined at sense 3b

Time Traveler
The first known use of abhorrent was in 1599
TOEFL BNC: 20689 COCA: 22815
abhorrent

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION VERBSbe可惡;討厭become變得討厭find sth覺得⋯可惡ADVERBabsolutely, totally, utterly非常可惡;極其可憎;令人深惡痛絕I find the idea absolutely abhorrent.我覺得這個想法非常令人反感。morally應受道義譴責的PREPOSITIONto引起⋯的惡感Such a savage punishment is abhorrent to a civilized society.這樣殘暴的懲罰會在文明社會引起反感。

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