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odious

English

Etymology

From Middle English odious, from Old French odieus, from Latin odi?sus, from odium (hate).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /???.di.?s/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?o?.di.?s/
  • Rhymes: -??di?s

Adjective

odious (comparative more odious, superlative most odious)

  1. Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
    Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.

Usage notes

  • Nouns to which "odious" is often applied: debt, man, character, crime, task, comparison, woman, person, vice, word, act.

Synonyms

  • detestable, hated, reviled, unsavory, contemptible, despicable

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • iodous

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abhorred

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /æb?h??d/

Verb

abhorred

  1. simple past tense and past participle of abhor

Adjective

abhorred (comparative more abhorred, superlative most abhorred)

  1. Strongly disliked: hated, despised. [Late 16th century.]
  2. (obsolete) Horrified. [Late 16th century.]

Translations

References

  • Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002) , “abhorred”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN, page 4

Anagrams

  • harbored, herd boar

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