Odious vs Infernal - What's the difference?
odious | infernal | Related terms |
Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
*
* {{quote-book
, year=1818
, author=Mary Shelley
, title=Frankenstein
, chapter=6
Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.
(by extension) Of or relating to a fire or inferno.
Stygian, gloomy.
Diabolical or fiendish.
* Addison
(as an expletive, not vulgar) Very annoying; damned.
* 1905 , Bram Stoker, The Man
As adjectives the difference between odious and infernal
is that odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure while infernal is of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.As a noun infernal is
an inhabitant of the infernal regions.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
*infernal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- the instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings
- As I had to put up with the patronage and the lecturings, and the eyeglass of that infernal old woman,
