"odious" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈəʊ.di.əs/ [UK], /ˈoʊ.di.əs/ [US] Audio: en-us-odious.ogg , en-au-odious.ogg Forms: more odious [comparative], most odious [superlative]
Rhymes: -əʊdiəs Etymology: From Middle English odious, from Old French odieus, from Latin odiōsus, from odium (“hate”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₃ed-|id=hate}}, {{inh|en|enm|odious}} Middle English odious, {{der|en|fro|odieus}} Old French odieus, {{der|en|la|odiōsus}} Latin odiōsus Head templates: {{en-adj}} odious (comparative more odious, superlative most odious)
  1. Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure. Categories (topical): Emotions Synonyms: detestable, hated, reviled, unsavory, contemptible, despicable Derived forms: odious as a toad, odious debt, odiously, odiousness Related terms: odium Translations (arousing strong dislike): στυγερός (stugerós) (Ancient Greek), mənfur (Azerbaijani), nifrətli (Azerbaijani), iyrənc (Azerbaijani), адыёзны (adyjózny) (Belarusian), омразен (omrazen) (Bulgarian), противен (protiven) (Bulgarian), odiós (Catalan), hatelijk (Dutch), hatelijke (Dutch), abomena (Esperanto), abomeninda (Esperanto), kauhea (Finnish), inhottava (Finnish), vihattava (Finnish), vastenmielinen (Finnish), odieux (French), ოდოიზური (odoizuri) (Georgian), abscheulich (German), scheußlich (German), abstoßend (German), widerlich (German), widerwärtig (German), gehässig (German), unausstehlich (German), verhasst (German), odiös (english: exalted) (German), odios [scholarly, sciences] (German), fuafar (Irish), gráiniúil (Irish), odioso [masculine] (Italian), odiōsus (Latin), о́мразен (ómrazen) (Macedonian), о́двратен (ódvraten) (Macedonian), о́дбивен (ódbiven) (Macedonian), нена́вистен (nenávisten) (Macedonian), гна́сен (gnásen) (Macedonian), fúathmar (Middle Irish), odiøs (Norwegian Bokmål), avskyelig (Norwegian Bokmål), motbydelig (Norwegian Bokmål), odiøs (Norwegian Nynorsk), avskyeleg (Norwegian Nynorsk), motbydeleg (Norwegian Nynorsk), wadalich (Plautdietsch), odioso (Portuguese), ненави́стный (nenavístnyj) (Russian), ни́зкий (nízkij) (Russian), отврати́тельный (otvratítelʹnyj) (Russian), проти́вный (protívnyj) (Russian), одио́зный (odióznyj) (Russian), घृणित (ghṛṇita) (Sanskrit), мр̏зак [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), mȑzak [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), odioso (Spanish), odiös (Swedish), motbjudande (Swedish), vidrig (Swedish), iğrenç (Turkish), itici (Turkish), одіо́зний (odióznyj) (Ukrainian), нена́висний (nenávysnyj) (Ukrainian)
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          "word": "odious as a toad"
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          "text": "He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.",
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          "text": "He always detested the trade, and it was only necessity, and the offer of his mother’s brother, a London apothecary of low family, into which Pendennis’s father had demeaned himself by marrying, that forced John Pendennis into so odious a calling.",
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          "text": "\"He was a dreadful person, a bully to everyone else, but to me something infinitely worse. He made odious love to me, boasted of his wealth, said that if I married him I would have the finest diamonds in London, and finally, when I would have nothing to do with him, he seized me in his arms one day after dinner—he was hideously strong—and he swore that he would not let me go until I had kissed him.\"",
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          "text": "Gedeon Van Rompay had the dubious distinction of being the only Site employee personally hired by Edwin Falkirk, former All Sections Chief and perennial piece of human trash. Lillian had found it easy not to hold this against the man, but only because there were so many other odious things about him to choose from. He was misogynist, he was chauvinistic, he was boorish, he was violent. Just about the only metric on which she rated Van Rompay higher than Falkirk was transphobia; the big man made no distinction between varieties of womanhood, feeling superior to all of them equally.",
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          "text": "You told a lie, an odious damned lie: / Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie!",
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          "text": "I own no crime, unless it be a crime to've hindered you from perpetrating that which would have made you odious to mankind, at least the fairest half.",
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          "ref": "1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 6, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 2013-05-08:",
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          "text": "He always detested the trade, and it was only necessity, and the offer of his mother’s brother, a London apothecary of low family, into which Pendennis’s father had demeaned himself by marrying, that forced John Pendennis into so odious a calling.",
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          "ref": "1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"He was a dreadful person, a bully to everyone else, but to me something infinitely worse. He made odious love to me, boasted of his wealth, said that if I married him I would have the finest diamonds in London, and finally, when I would have nothing to do with him, he seized me in his arms one day after dinner—he was hideously strong—and he swore that he would not let me go until I had kissed him.\"",
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          "ref": "2023 September 16, HarryBlank, “Borrowing Trouble”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-06-15:",
          "text": "Gedeon Van Rompay had the dubious distinction of being the only Site employee personally hired by Edwin Falkirk, former All Sections Chief and perennial piece of human trash. Lillian had found it easy not to hold this against the man, but only because there were so many other odious things about him to choose from. He was misogynist, he was chauvinistic, he was boorish, he was violent. Just about the only metric on which she rated Van Rompay higher than Falkirk was transphobia; the big man made no distinction between varieties of womanhood, feeling superior to all of them equally.",
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      "word": "detestable"
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      "word": "unsavory"
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      "code": "az",
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      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "mənfur"
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      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "nifrətli"
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      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "адыёзны"
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      "roman": "omrazen",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "омразен"
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      "roman": "protiven",
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      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "abomena"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "abomeninda"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "kauhea"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "inhottava"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "vihattava"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "vastenmielinen"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "odieux"
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    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "odoizuri",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "ოდოიზური"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "abscheulich"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "scheußlich"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "abstoßend"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "widerlich"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "widerwärtig"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "gehässig"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "unausstehlich"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "verhasst"
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      "code": "de",
      "english": "exalted",
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      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "odiös"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
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      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "stugerós",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "στυγερός"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "fuafar"
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    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "gráiniúil"
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      "code": "mga",
      "lang": "Middle Irish",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "fúathmar"
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
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      "word": "odioso"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "odiōsus"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ómrazen",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "о́мразен"
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    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ódvraten",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "о́двратен"
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      "roman": "ódbiven",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "о́дбивен"
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      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nenávisten",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "нена́вистен"
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      "roman": "gnásen",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "гна́сен"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "odiøs"
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    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "avskyelig"
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    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "motbydelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "odiøs"
    },
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      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "avskyeleg"
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    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
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      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "wadalich"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "odioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nenavístnyj",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "ненави́стный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nízkij",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "ни́зкий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otvratítelʹnyj",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "отврати́тельный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "protívnyj",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "проти́вный"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "odióznyj",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "одио́зный"
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    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "ghṛṇita",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "घृणित"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "odioso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "odiös"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "motbjudande"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "vidrig"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "iğrenç"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "itici"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "odióznyj",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "одіо́зний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nenávysnyj",
      "sense": "arousing strong dislike",
      "word": "нена́висний"
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  "word": "odious"
}

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