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Odious vs Abhorred - What's the difference?

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Odious is a related term of abhorred.


As adjectives the difference between odious and abhorred

is that odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure while abhorred is strongly disliked: hated, despised.

As a verb abhorred is

(abhor).

odious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
  • Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.
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  • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=6 citation , passage=He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.}}

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "odious" is often applied: debt, man, character, crime, task, comparison, woman, person, vice, word, act.

    Synonyms

    * detestable, hated, reviled, unsavory, contemptible, despicable

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    abhorred

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abhor)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Strongly disliked: hated, despised.
  • (obsolete) Horrified.
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