Odious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Odious \O"di*ous\, a. [L. odiosus, from odium hatred: cf. F.
     odieux. See {Odium}.]
     1. Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious
        name, system, vice. "All wickedness will be most odious."
        --Sprat.
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              He rendered himself odious to the Parliament.
                                                    --Clarendon.
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     2. Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust;
        offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight;
        an odious smell. --Milton.
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              The odious side of that polity.       --Macaulay.
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     Syn: Hateful; detestable; abominable; disgusting; loathsome;
          invidious; repulsive; forbidding; unpopular.
          [1913 Webster] -- {O"di*ous`ly}. adv. --
          {O"di*ous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  odious
       adj : unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of
             prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";
             "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
             [syn: {abominable}, {detestable}, {execrable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  150 Moby Thesaurus words for "odious":
     abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, barfy,
     base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt,
     blameworthy, brutal, cheesy, contemptible, crappy, crude, crummy,
     debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable,
     dire, dirty, disgusting, dislikable, displeasing, distasteful,
     dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fecal, feculent, fetid,
     filthy, flagrant, flyblown, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gloppy,
     grave, grievous, gross, gunky, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid,
     icky, ignoble, infamous, intolerable, lamentable, little,
     loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, maggoty, malodorous,
     mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable,
     mislikable, monstrous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious,
     noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene,
     offensive, ordurous, outrageous, paltry, petty, pitiable, pitiful,
     poky, poor, puky, putrid, rank, rebarbative, regrettable,
     repellent, reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive,
     revolting, rotten, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby,
     scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shitty,
     shocking, shoddy, sickening, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy,
     slushy, small, sordid, sposhy, squalid, stinking, terrible,
     too bad, unclean, uncongenial, uninviting, unlikable, unlovable,
     unmentionable, unpleasant, vile, villainous, vomity, woeful, wormy,
     worst, worthless, wretched, yecchy