Odious vs Obvious - What's the difference?
odious | obvious | Related terms |
Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
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Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
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Odious is a related term of obvious.
As adjectives the difference between odious and obvious
is that odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure while obvious is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.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
*obvious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Down towns, passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}