Definitions for odious
ˈoʊ di əsodi·ous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.3 / 3 votes

1. abominable, detestable, execrable, odiousadjective

   unequivocally detestable

   "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. odiousadjective

   Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.

   Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.

2. Etymology: Via French odieux, "odious", from Latin odiosus, from odium, "hate", -osus, "-ous", from odisse, "to hate".

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ODIOUSadjective

   Etymology: odieux, Fr. odiosus, Latin.

   1. Hateful; detestable; abominable.

   For ever all goodness will be most charming; for ever all wickedness will be most odious. Thomas Sprat, Serm.

   Hatred is the passion of defence, and there is a kind of hostility included in its very essence. But then, if there could have been hatred in the world, when there was scarce any thing odious, it would have acted within the compass of its proper object. Robert South, Sermons.

   Let not the Trojans, with a feign’d pretence
   Of proffer’d peace, delude the Latian prince:
   Expel from Italy that odious name. Dryden.

   She breathes the odious fume
   Of nauseous steams, and poisons all the room. George Granville.

   2. Exposed to hate.

   Another means for raising money, was, by inquiring after offences of officers in great place, who as by unjust dealing they became most odious, so by justice in their punishments the prince acquired both love and applause. John Hayward.

   He had rendered himself odious to the parliament. Edward Hyde.

   3. Causing hate; incidious.

   The seventh from thee,
   The only righteous in a world perverse,
   And therefore hated, therefore so beset
   With foes, for daring single to be just,
   And utter odious truth, that God would come
   To judge them with his saints. John Milton, Par. Lost.

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1. odious

   Odious is an adjective used to describe something that is extremely unpleasant, repulsive, or offensive. It can also refer to something that arouses intense dislike or aversion.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. Odious

   ō′di-us, adj. hateful: offensive: repulsive: causing hatred.—adv. O′diously.—ns. O′diousness; O′dium, hatred: offensiveness: blame: quality of provoking hate.—Odium theologicum, the proverbial hatred of controversial divines for each other's errors—and persons. [L.,—odi, to hate.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of odious in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of odious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of odious in a Sentence

1. Mario Savio:

   Theres a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious - makes you so sick at heart that you cant take part, you cant even passively take part. And you got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and youve got to make it stop. And youve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless youre free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.

2. Yayi Boni:

   The discussions we have had with him reassure us, we are going to put an end to this odious phenomenon ... This summit will be decisive.

3. The Telegraph:

   Oh Allah, destroy the odious Christians. Oh Allah Kill them all.

4. Andrew Cuomo:

   The hateful activities at Syracuse University are most disturbing, not only to the Syracuse University community, but to the greater community of New York, they have no been handled in a manner that reflects this states aggressive opposition to such odious, reckless, and reprehensible behavior. That these actions should happen on the campus of a leading New York university makes this situation even worse.

5. Saadi Shirazi:

   Wickedness, by whomsoever committed, is odious, but most of all in men of learning; for learning is the weapon with which Satan is combated, and when a man is made captive with arms in his hand his shame is more excessive.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=odious
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Odious
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=odious
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=odious