Pray do not talk of that odious man.
Source: tatoeba (837439)
Odious
//ˈoʊ.di.əs//
Synonyms for "odious" (183 found)
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Closest matches (37)
Strong matches (55)
Related words (91)
miasmalmiasmicmiserablemislikablemonstrousmuckynastynauseatingnefariousnoisomenotoriousnoxiousobjectionableobnoxiousobsceneoffensiveordurousoutrageouspaltrypetty
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
5 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
62 translations across 27 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- στυγερός adj (arousing strong dislike)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- iyrənc adj (arousing strong dislike)
- mənfur adj (arousing strong dislike)
- nifrətli adj (arousing strong dislike)
Belarusian
1 entries- адыёзны adj (arousing strong dislike)
Bulgarian
2 entries- омразен adj (arousing strong dislike)
- противен adj (arousing strong dislike)
Catalan
1 entries- odiós adj (arousing strong dislike)
Dutch
2 entries- hatelijk adj (arousing strong dislike)
- hatelijke adj (arousing strong dislike)
Esperanto
2 entries- abomena adj (arousing strong dislike)
- abomeninda adj (arousing strong dislike)
Finnish
4 entries- inhottava adj (arousing strong dislike)
- kauhea adj (arousing strong dislike)
- vastenmielinen adj (arousing strong dislike)
- vihattava adj (arousing strong dislike)
French
1 entries- odieux adj (arousing strong dislike)
Georgian
1 entries- ოდოიზური adj (arousing strong dislike)
German
4 entries- abscheulich adj (arousing strong dislike)
- abstoßend adj (arousing strong dislike)
- gehässig adj (arousing strong dislike)
- odios adj (arousing strong dislike)
Irish
2 entries- fuafar adj (arousing strong dislike)
- gráiniúil adj (arousing strong dislike)
Italian
1 entries- odioso adj (arousing strong dislike)
Latin
1 entries- odiōsus adj (arousing strong dislike)
Macedonian
4 entries- гна́сен adj (arousing strong dislike)
- нена́вистен adj (arousing strong dislike)
- о́дбивен adj (arousing strong dislike)
- о́двратен adj (arousing strong dislike)
Middle Irish
1 entries- fúathmar adj (arousing strong dislike)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- avskyelig adj (arousing strong dislike)
- motbydelig adj (arousing strong dislike)
- odiøs adj (arousing strong dislike)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- avskyeleg adj (arousing strong dislike)
- motbydeleg adj (arousing strong dislike)
- odiøs adj (arousing strong dislike)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- wadalich adj (arousing strong dislike)
Portuguese
1 entries- odioso adj (arousing strong dislike)
Russian
4 entries- ненави́стный adj (arousing strong dislike)
- ни́зкий adj (arousing strong dislike)
- одио́зный adj (arousing strong dislike)
- отврати́тельный adj (arousing strong dislike)
Sanskrit
1 entries- घृणित adj (arousing strong dislike)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- mȑzak adj (arousing strong dislike)
- мр̏зак adj (arousing strong dislike)
Spanish
1 entries- odioso adj (arousing strong dislike)
Swedish
3 entries- motbjudande adj (arousing strong dislike)
- odiös adj (arousing strong dislike)
- vidrig adj (arousing strong dislike)
Turkish
2 entries- itici adj (arousing strong dislike)
- iğrenç adj (arousing strong dislike)
Ukrainian
2 entries- нена́висний adj (arousing strong dislike)
- одіо́зний adj (arousing strong dislike)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.
Source: tatoeba (5337385)
The wedding was scarcely over, when the step-mother's bad temper began to show itself. She could not bear the goodness of this young girl, because it made her own daughters appear the more odious.
Source: tatoeba (6211639)
In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, humans are described as being "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."
Source: tatoeba (6588622)
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