odious
20
8.2
- adjective
- /ˈoʊdiəs/
- Formal
:
odioso
- After hearing her odious comments about the homeless, I couldn't stand her anymore.
- odious music
- odious regimes
- odious doctrine
I mean, you showed us that these guys were these terrible Nazis, they were odious, etcetera, etcetera.
- I mean, you showed us that these guys were these terrible Nazis, they were odious, etcetera, etcetera.
- Is it that there are many more people now who fundamentally just have these really odious beliefs about other human beings?
- I mean, I find these protesters to be obnoxious at best and really odious and hateful and anti-Semitic at worst.
- For me, the idea of relishing in the suffering of the pig that you're eating is odious only because it's contrary to my values.
- So there are all kinds of benefits from listening even I would say, especially to ideas that we consider to be dangerous and and odious.
- And I, it, it shows up in your body in a dark, more odious way.
Examples
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Together with that, his manifest incompetence rendered him odious in the eyes of the political nation.
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The others seemed odious to me.
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What is that odious man doing?
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Yes, someone else would watch it and find him odious and unacceptable.
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Such was the odious spectacle that first met my eyes.
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Apparently, she is truly as odious as Bertille had thought early on.
Fiction book (2000) -
Tabachnyk is an odious choice because, besides having a weak academic pedigree, he openly espouses anti-Ukrainian views.
Academic text (2010) -
His odious behavior at the party made everyone uncomfortable.
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Many found the politician's odious remarks offensive and unacceptable.
Synonyms
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1.0
Very bad or unpleasant and causing dislike
531
1.3
Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making you feel sick
268
4.9
Very bad or offensive in a moral way
215
1.0
Not nice and causing discomfort or unhappiness
157
5.0
Very bad and morally wrong
126
5.1
Very unpleasant in a way that makes people angry or upset
116
3.6
Making people feel strong dislike or anger
95
5.7
Very bad in a way that makes people feel strong dislike and disgust
87
5.6
Causing shock and strong disgust because it is very bad
59
5.5
Causing strong dislike or disgust, like a very bad smell
42
7.8
Very unpleasant and morally wrong to most people
31
6.7
Causing people to feel offended or want to protest
30
4.6
Something that makes people feel dislike or disgust
29
7.2
Something people think is morally wrong or dishonest
24
7.2
Very bad or morally wrong so people strongly dislike it
23
7.7
Causing strong dislike or disgust because people see it as morally wrong
21
7.2
Morally wrong because it goes against religious rules
20
7.7
Causing strong disgust or hatred in people
15
7.4
Very bad and makes people feel angry or disgusted
15
7.1
Very bad in a moral way and deserving strong blame
10
8.5
Something that people strongly blame or hate for being very bad
9
6.5
Very unpleasant and causing people to feel strong dislike or hate
4
9.5
Very bad and unpleasant, causing strong dislike
2
9.8
Very unfair and wrong in a way that harms people
1
5.6
Easy for people to dislike because it seems rude or cruel
Very unpleasant and likely to make people feel disgusted
A person, idea or action that many people strongly dislike
Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making people feel sick
Antonyms
How Offensive
9
6.5
- Formal
20
8.2
- Offensive
261
4.0
215
1.0
6
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word odious comes from the Latin odium, meaning 'hatred', and from odiosus, meaning 'hateful'. That's why something called odious feels extremely unpleasant and deserves strong dislike.