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Definition of Odious
1. Adjective. Unequivocally detestable. "Consequences odious to those you govern"
Similar to: Hateful
Derivative terms: Abominate, Odiousness, Odium
Definition of Odious
1. a. Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.
Definition of Odious
1. Adjective. Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Odious
1. deserving or causing hatred [adj] : ODIOUSLY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Odious
Literary usage of Odious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"On the other hand, let us consider as odious every thing that is, in its own
nature, rather injurious than useful to mankind. Those things which have a ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Mrs .Trumpler will of course take it up. She's odious ... odious. You haven't
seen her yet. but you'll have to call on her; she contributes a thousand ..."
3. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1898)
"In Shakespeare's early life the convention was wittily parodied by Gabriel Harvey
in ' An Amorous odious sonnet intituled The Student's Loove or ..."
4. A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee (1898)
"In Shakespeare's early life the convention was wittily parodied by Gabriel Harvey
in 'An Amorous odious sonnet intituled The Student's Loove or ..."
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