Dictionary Definition
odious adj : unequivocally detestable;
"abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable
crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
[syn: abominable,
detestable, execrable]
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Etymology
Via French odieux, "odious", from Latin odiosus, from odium, "hate", -osus, "-ous", from odisse, "to hate".Adjective
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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