I abhor spiders.
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Abhor
//əbˈhɔː//
Synonyms for "abhor" (28 found)
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Closest matches (6)
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Related words (14)
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13 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 38 languages.
Afan Oromo
1 entries- balfuu verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- στυγέω verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Armenian
1 entries- ատել verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Bulgarian
2 entries- гнуся се verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- отвращавам се verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Catalan
1 entries- avorrir verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 痛恨 verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Dutch
4 entries- gruwen van verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- verafschuwen verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- verwerpen verb (to reject with disdain)
- walgen van verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Esperanto
2 entries- abomeni verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- malamegi verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Finnish
1 entries- inhota verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
French
2 entries- abhorrer verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- avoir horreur de verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
German
2 entries- abhorrieren verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- verabscheuen verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Hebrew
1 entries- תִּעֵב verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Hindi
1 entries- घृणा करना verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Hungarian
4 entries- gyűlöl verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- irtózik verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- iszonyodik verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- viszolyog verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Ido
1 entries- abominar verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Indonesian
1 entries- membenci verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Irish
1 entries- adhfhuathaigh verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Italian
2 entries- abominare verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- aborrire verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Japanese
1 entries- 忌む verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Latin
2 entries- abhorreō verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- abōminor verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Macedonian
1 entries- презира verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Māori
2 entries- konekone verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- whakahouhou verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Norwegian
1 entries- avsky verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Occitan
1 entries- aborrir verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Polish
2 entries- czuć odrazę verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- nie cierpieć verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Portuguese
2 entries- abominar verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- detestar verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Romanian
4 entries- abhora verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- detesta verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- disprețui verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- respinge cu dispreț verb (to reject with disdain)
Russian
2 entries- ненави́деть verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- пита́ть отвраще́ние verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- fuathaich verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- gràinich verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Spanish
3 entries- abominar verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- aborrecer verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- detestar verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Swedish
1 entries- avsky verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Thai
4 entries- ขยะแขยง verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- ชัง verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- เกลียด verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
- เกลียดชัง verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Turkish
1 entries- nefret etmek verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Ukrainian
1 entries- морально ненавидіти verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Urdu
1 entries- گھرنا کرنا verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ghét cay ghét đắng verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Welsh
1 entries- cashau verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- booang verb (to regard with horror or detestation)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
We abhor violence.
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I abhor politics.
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I abhor killing animals.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.