English Explanatory Dictionary

abhominal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Inhuman; obsolete form of abominable.

Word forms

abhominal more abhominal most abhominal

Etymology

From Latin abhominalis, from ab (“away from”) + hominis (“man”), but in practice from English abominable, which was erroneously folk-etymologized as this word, leading to this spelling and abhominable, which see for more.

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