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o·di·ous 
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| 1. | deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable. |
| 2. | highly offensive; repugnant; disgusting. |
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adj. Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure. See Synonyms at hateful. [Middle English, from Old French odieus, from Latin odiōsus, from odium, hatred; see odium.] o'di·ous·ly adv., o'di·ous·ness n. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
odious
c.1380, from Anglo-Fr. odious, from O.Fr. odieus (1376, Mod.Fr. odieux), from L. odiosus "hateful," from odium "hatred" (see odium).
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| unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke [syn: abominable] |
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odious [ˈəudiəs] adjective
hateful; disgusting
Example: She is an odious young woman.
Example: She is an odious young woman.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
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. He rendered himself odious to the Parliament. --Clarendon. 2. Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell. --Milton. The odious side of that polity. --Macaulay. Syn: Hateful; detestable; abominable; disgusting; loathsome; invidious; repulsive; forbidding; unpopular. -- O"di*ous`ly. adv. -- O"di*ous*ness, n.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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