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Odious vs Unbearable - What's the difference?

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Odious is a related term of unbearable.


As adjectives the difference between odious and unbearable

is that odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure while unbearable is so unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.

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

    Anagrams

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    unbearable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • so unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable

    • Synonyms

    * insufferable * unsupportable