Definition of odious Odious
/owˈdiʌs/ - [owdeeus] - o•di•ous
We found 8 definitions of odious from 6 different sources.
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What does odious mean?
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| odious - unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke | ||
| abominable, detestable, execrable | ||
| hateful evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- odious (a.)
Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice. - odious (a.)
Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure. -
odious
Provoking hate, aversion, disaproval.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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ō′di-us, adj. hateful: offensive: repulsive: causing hatred.—adv. O′diously.—ns. O′diousness; O′dium, hatred: offensiveness: blame: quality of provoking hate.—Odium theologicum, the proverbial hatred of controversial divines for each other's errors—and persons. [L.,—odi, to hate.]
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