ODIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does odious mean? 

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

1. unequivocally detestable

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ODIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unequivocally detestable

Synonyms:

abominable; detestable; execrable; odious

Context example:

consequences odious to those you govern

Similar:

hateful (evoking or deserving hatred)

Derivation:

odiousness (the quality of being offensive)

odium (hate coupled with disgust)

 Context examples 

Mr. Woodley seemed to me to be a most odious person.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Oh, these odious gigs!” said Isabella, looking up.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

How odious I should think them!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But I consented to listen, and seating myself by the fire which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A flash of odious joy appeared upon the woman’s face.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They must not do less than others, or she should be exposed to odious suspicions, and imagined capable of pitiful resentment.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I abhor every common-place phrase by which wit is intended; and 'setting one's cap at a man,' or 'making a conquest,' are the most odious of all.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

An odious, little, pert, unnatural, impudent girl.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Yet I was so weak and bruised in the sides with the squeezes given me by this odious animal, that I was forced to keep my bed a fortnight.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then and there we should have tried the thing out, for he was effervescing with fight, but fortunately I was rescued from an odious situation.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)