Dictionary Definition
abominable adj
1 unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment
of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";
"consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke [syn:
detestable, execrable, odious]
2 exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious
taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful
manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an
unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [syn: atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
- Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive.
- Note: Juliana Berners ... informs us that in her time (15th century), "abomynable syght of monkes" was elegant English for "a large company of friars". - George Perkins Marsh
- Very bad or inferior.
Derived terms
Translations
hateful; detestable; loathsome
- German: verabscheuungswürdig, verhasst, abscheulich
- Hungarian: utálatos, undorító, gyűlöletes
(obsolete) excessive; large
- German: riesig, monströs
very bad or inferior
- Hungarian: förtelmes
- ttbc Dutch: abominabel, afstotelijk
- ttbc French: abominable
- ttbc Interlingua: abominabile
- ttbc Italian: abominabile
- ttbc Latin: abominabilis m|f, abominabile
- ttbc Portuguese: abominável
- ttbc Spanish: abominable
- ttbc Vietnamese: kinh tởm,đáng ghét
- ttbc Vietnamese: ghê tởm
References
- Webster 1913
Extensive Definition
Abominable is a
Sci Fi Channel
original film released in 2006. It premiered on
April 10
in New York
City. It was about the cryptid
Bigfoot or
the Abominable
Snowman. It was written and directed by Ryan
Schifrin, and produced by Red
Circle Productions. Its tagline was "Think Big".
Plot
Preston Rogers, a wheelchair-bound paraplegic,
returns home where he had the climbing accident that paralyzed him
and took the life of his wife. Otis, Preston's patronizing physical
therapist, accompanies him to his cabin in the woods. After Otis
leaves to buy Preston some soy milk, a group of girls arrive to
stay in the cabin next door for a bachelorette weekend. Preston
then begins to notice strange things happening in the woods
surrounding the two cabins as night falls which happen to be a
hunting ground for a monster which is none other than the legendary
Sasquatch. One by one the girls are taken by the monster while
Preston watches on helplessly. He tries to tell Otis when he
returns, but Otis doesn't believe him, nor do the police he emails
a report to. Preston takes matters into his own hands after having
to sedate Otis, and helps the lone survivor of the girls escape the
monster's rampage. They are eventually rescued after Preston
manages to kill the Sasquatch after it kills Otis. As the local
police look for the dead monster, which is missing, they see the
eyes of many more monsters that are surrounding them light up. It
is strongly implied that these men are killed by these
creatures.
Cast
- Matt McCoy as Preston Rogers
- Haley Joel as Amanda
- Christien Tinsley as Otis Wilhelm
- Ashley Hartman as Karen Herdberger
- Tiffany Shepis as Tracy
- Karin Anna Cheung as CJ
- Natalie Compagno as Michelle
- Lance Henriksen as Ziegler Dane
- Rex Linn as Farmer Hoss
- Jeffrey Combs as Buddy, The Clerk
- Michael Deak as The Monster
Interviews
- Interview with Abominable Director Ryan Schifrin conducted by Pat Ferrara at Mania.com. (December 2006)
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aberrant, abhorrent, abject, abnormal, accursed, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt,
beneath contempt, black,
blamable, blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, criminal, crude, crummy, cursed, damnable, dark, debased, degraded, delinquent, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, deviant, dire, dirty, disagreeable, disgraceful, disgusting, distasteful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, forbidding, foul, frightful, fulsome, grave, grievous, gross, hardly the thing, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious, illegal, improper, in bad taste,
inappropriate,
incorrect, indecorous, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, noisome, not done, not the
thing, notorious,
noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, off-base, off-color,
offensive,
out-of-line, outrageous, paltry, peccant, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sacrilegious, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sinful, small, sordid, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, undue, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unmentionable, unpardonable, unpleasant, unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, wrongful