abominable
意味
- 憎むべき,いまわしい
- 《話》実にいやな,ひどい
例文
The Abominable Snowman is a Himalayan monster.
雪男はヒマラヤの怪物だ。
I heard that they found the footprints of an abominable snowman in the Himalayas.
ヒマラヤ山中で雪男の足跡が発見されたらしい。
I heard that footprints of an abominable snowman have been discovered in the Himalayas.
ヒマラヤ山中で雪男の足跡が発見されたらしい。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English abhomynable, from Old French abominable, from Late Latin abōminābilis (“deserving abhorrence”), from abōminor (“abhor, deprecate as an ill omen”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ōminor (“forebode, predict, presage”), from ōmen (“sign, token, omen”). Formerly erroneously folk-etymologized as deriving from Latin ab- + homo, literally "away from humankind," and therefore spelled abhominable, abhominal (Hence, Shakespeare puns on this when Hamlet speaks of incompetent actors that "imitate humanity abominably.")