abhorrentとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /æbˈ(h)ɒɹ.ənt/, /əbˈ(h)ɒɹ.ənt/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /æbˈhɔɹ.ənt/, /æbˈhɑɹ.ənt/

形容詞

abhorrent (comparative more abhorrent, superlative most abhorrent)

1. (archaic) Inconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed [Late 16^th century.]^[1]

   abhorrent thoughts

   • 1803, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France‎^[1]:

     The persons most abhorrent from blood, and treason, and arbitrary confiscation, might remain silent spectators of this civil war between the vices.

2. Contrary to something; discordant. [Mid 17^th century.]^[1]
   • 1827, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire‎^[2]:

     This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ...

   • 1990, James Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance‎^[3]:

     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.

3. Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing. [Mid 18^th century.]^[1]
4. Detestable or repugnant. [Early 19^th century.]^[1]
   • 1833, Isaac Taylor, Fanaticism‎^[4]:

     If Pride, abhorrent as it is, and if Ambition, ...

   • 1936, Paul E. More, On Being Human‎^[5]:

     That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.

   • 1822, Richard Clover, Leonidas‎^[6]:

     The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn, abhorrent; in a spotless heart I look for pleasure.

使用する際の注意点

• Nouns to which abhorrent is often applied: behavior, act, crime, practice, thing.
• (opposed): abhorrent is typically followed by from.
• (contrary): abhorrent is followed by to.

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