0 very bad or unpleasant:
The prisoners are forced to live in abominable conditions.
The weather's been abominable all week.
1 very bad or unpleasant:
The abominable working conditions made many workers sick.
Like the ' ' abominable ' ' grid system, bridges were direct, linear and detached.
By all accounts, the living conditions of the exiles were abominable.
So indeed he has caused us to enter into perplexity and impossibilities greater and more abominable than that which we were in.
Abominable acts can be made defensible if you call them by another name.
More than this, traditions occupied the place of true religion entirely, and so formed an abominable idol.
They observed that gaols were in an abominable state and so detrimental to the inmates' health that their lives were in jeopardy.
Suddenly the abominable no-men were saying yes.
Todd was offended by the ' exceedingly ugly and abominable ' church fittings, and the ' presbyterianised ' communion service.