Hypertext Webster Gateway: "odious"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Odious \O"di*ous\, a. [L. odiosus, from odium hatred: cf. F.
odieux. See {Odium}.]
1. Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious
name, system, vice. ``All wickedness will be most
odious.'' --Sprat.
He rendered himself odious to the Parliament.
--Clarendon.
2. Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust;
offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight;
an odious smell. --Milton.
The odious side of that polity. --Macaulay.
Syn: Hateful; detestable; abominable; disgusting; loathsome;
invidious; repulsive; forbidding; unpopular. --
{O"di*ous`ly}. adv. -- {O"di*ous*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
odious
adj : unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of
prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";
"consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
[syn: {abominable}, {detestable}, {execrable}]
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