Odious vs Bald - What's the difference?
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Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
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Having no hair, fur or feathers.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
# Having no hair on the head.
Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
Of a statement: empirically unsupported.
(Appalachian) A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern .
Odious is a related term of bald.
As adjectives the difference between odious and bald
is that odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure while bald is having no hair, fur or feathers.As a noun bald is
(appalachian) a mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the southern.As a verb bald is
to become bald.odious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.
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, despicableAnagrams
*bald
English
Adjective
(wikipedia bald) (er)- The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.
- a bald man with a moustache