odious

Speech parts

1. odious - Adjective

2. odious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.

Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

detestable abominable repulsive disgusting hateful despicable contemptible loathsome execrable base damned rotten accursed frightful bad
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Antonyms

grateful pleasurable delicious congenial endearing delectable
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Related terms

odium

Phrases with the word

capacity of being odious most odious

Anagrams

iodous

Examples

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning. Frédéric Chopin

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. Harlan F. Stone

Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious. Teresa of Ávila

Self praise is odious. Latin Proverb

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious. Spanish Proverb

Comparisons are odious. Scottish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Odinist odinite odintsovite odious as a toad odious debt odiously