Meaning and example
find repugnant
I loathe that man
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.185 places abhor in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 88.6% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 88.6%
disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking
- Known by
- 88.4%
briefly giving the gist of something
- Known by
- 88.8%
of the most contemptible kind
- Known by
- 88.8%
fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
- Known by
- 88.3%
being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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