ABOMINABLY Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

abominably

adverb

as in horribly

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Past air shows have gone horribly wrong when military aviators have cut their margins too close.

— Brynn Tannehill, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026
But then a banquet meal goes horribly awry, and pirates sink the ship.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 July 2026

Definition of horribly

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Given that humans at OpenAI had decided to turn off some safeguards for the test, some have argued the outcome should not have been terribly surprising.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
In a world that had long equated labor with the physical act of making things, such a shift was seen as not terribly manly, and potentially dangerous to society as a whole.

— Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026

Definition of terribly

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Winning the European title in two years’ time would go an awfully long way to doing that, and the FA’s job here is to make decisions based on what is going to get the best out of the players, not how the public feels.

— The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Right now, though, ripe, honey-tart peaches with soft goat cheese would be awfully good with the last sips of a Chenin Blanc.

— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Definition of awfully

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Part slasher parody, part meta commentary on the structure of horror movies, and fully riotous, Behind the Mask is a dreadfully under-appreciated contribution to the subgenre that would have made for a terrific franchise.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 9 June 2026
Especially early in its career, Hum was dreadfully misclassified as just another soft-to-loud/Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana wannabe, and remained criminally under-appreciated for its heavy/stoner-friendly Midwestern shoegaze vibes long after its breakup.

— Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 16 May 2026

Definition of dreadfully

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West Ham are relegated, sorry Spurs survive The odds were stacked against West Ham United beating relegation yesterday and even in a year when Tottenham Hotspur plumbed appallingly abject depths, few clubs deserved it more.

— Phil Hay, New York Times, 25 May 2026
With respect to humor’s inherent subjectivity, the appallingly ugly aesthetics of the AI overwhelm any possible comedic sensibility on display.

— Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 15 May 2026

Definition of appallingly

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Too little regulation could allow the unleashing of devilish AI that might wipe us out or at least be horrendously destructive.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Of all the horrendous nonsense we were forced to entertain this spring, none of it was more horrendously nonsensical than the idea of people vibe-coding their own cybersecurity solutions.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 18 May 2026

Definition of horrendously

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Those with more modest means are falling further behind and, perhaps most alarmingly, finding fewer pathways to the economic mobility that has helped define the American dream.

— Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
American healthcare has alarmingly normalized systemic failures, turning patients into de facto system integrators who must carry their own medical records due to a lack of interoperability.

— Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

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