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Something abhorrent is not just bad or . It is completely unacceptable, because it seems morally wrong. An abhorrent crime. An abhorrent idea. The word describes the thing, not the feeling (that feeling is ). It is strong and formal. Though actually, speakers sometimes use it for things they simply find ugly or crude, which is a stretch from the moral core. If you keep the core, abhorrent means: decent people should not accept this.
令人憎惡的、可惡的（道德上完全不能接受，不只是討厭）
組成From Latin abhorrēns, the present participle of abhorreō (“abhor”). In English it is abhor + -ent.
同家族的字
- abhorabhorrent is abhor + -ent
- abhorrencethe noun for the feeling
- horrorsame Latin root horreō
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
abhorrentadj/æbˈ(h)ɒɹənt/
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archaicInconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed.
- abhorrent thoughts
- The persons most abhorrent from blood, and treason, and arbitrary confiscation, might remain silent spectators of this civil war between the vices.
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Contrary to something; discordant.
- This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ...
- In establishing his ideal state he expressed some opinions utterly abhorrent to our customs and ways of living. He believed, for instance, that all wives should be held in common ... with the result that no one could tell his own children from those of a perfect stranger.
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Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
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Detestable or repugnant.
- If Pride, abhorrent as it is, and if Ambition, ...
- That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。