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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
odious
adj : unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of
prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";
"consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
[syn: abominable, detestable, execrable]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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