abomination

Other forms of abomination

plural

abominations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abomination

What does abomination mean?

abomination means "a person who is loathsome or disgusting". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abomination?

abomination has 5 syllables: a-bo-mi-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /əˌbɑməˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for abomination?

Close synonyms include abhorrence, detestation, execration, loathing, odium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abomination a common word?

abomination is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with abomination?

73 words rhyme with abomination. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.