Woeful vs Abominable - What's the difference?
woeful | abominable |
Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
wretched; paltry; poor
Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
* But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable , and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. — Revelation 21:8 (KJV)
(obsolete) Excessive, large (used as an intensifier).
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Very bad or inferior.
Disagreeable or unpleasant.
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As adjectives the difference between woeful and abominable
is that woeful is full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity while abominable is worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable .woeful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace! — Daniel.
- a woeful event
- a woeful lack of restraint
- What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! — Pope.
Synonyms
* See alsoabominable
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete) abhominableAdjective
(en adjective)- Note:''''' (Juliana Berners) ... informs us that in her time (15th century), "' abomynable syght of monkes" was elegant English for "a large company of friars".