abominate

Meanings

1. Abominable; detested.

1. To feel disgust towards; to loathe or detest thoroughly; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread.
2. To dislike strongly.

Etymology

First attested in 1644. Perhaps a back-formation from abomination. Alternatively, perhaps from Late Latin abōminātus, past participle of abōminarī (“to deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab + ominari (“to forebode, presage”), from omen.