DETESTED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does detested mean? 

• DETESTED (adjective)
  The adjective DETESTED has 1 sense:

1. treated with dislike or contempt

  Familiarity information: DETESTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DETESTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treated with dislike or contempt

Synonyms:

despised; detested; hated; scorned

Similar:

unloved (not loved)

 Context examples 

He had no pleasure at Norland; he detested being in town; but either to Norland or London, he must go.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was evident that they detested anonymity.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Begone! Relieve me from the sight of your detested form.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Unfortunately, Mr. Davis particularly detested the odor of the fashionable pickle, and disgust added to his wrath.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But now, alas, how welcome would have been the feel of their presence, the frou-frou and swish-swish of their skirts which I had so cordially detested!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I really had not yet been able to make up my mind whether I liked Uriah or detested him; and I was very doubtful about it still, as I stood looking him in the face in the street.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Bingley, from this time, was of course a daily visitor at Longbourn; coming frequently before breakfast, and always remaining till after supper; unless when some barbarous neighbour, who could not be enough detested, had given him an invitation to dinner which he thought himself obliged to accept.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I knew that I was preparing for myself a deadly torture, but I was the slave, not the master, of an impulse which I detested yet could not disobey.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Not alone did it give him the same dark and murky aspect of the Silva house, inside and out, but it seemed to emphasize that animal-like strength of his which she detested.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Bereft of his cake, defrauded of his frolic, and borne away by a strong hand to that detested bed, poor Demi could not restrain his wrath, but openly defied Papa, and kicked and screamed lustily all the way upstairs.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)