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Odious vs Depraved - What's the difference?

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Odious is a related term of depraved.


As adjectives the difference between odious and depraved

is that odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure while depraved is perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.

As a verb depraved is

(deprave).

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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    depraved

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (deprave)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Perverted or extremely wrong in a moral sense.

    • Derived terms

    * depravedly * depravedness

    Related terms

    * deprave * depravity

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