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Definition: Detestation |
DetestationNoun1. Hate coupled with disgust. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "detestation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: DetestationSynonyms: abhorrence (n), abomination (n), execration (n), loathing (n), odium (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing; averseness, aversation, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate; animosity; hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa, xenophobia. sickener; gall and wormwood; (unsavory); shuddering, cold sweat. |
Hate | Repugnance; (dislike); misanthropy, demonophobia, gynephobia, negrophobia; odium, unpopularity; detestation, antipathy; object of hatred, object of execration; abomination, aversion, b_te noire; enemy; bitter pill; source of annoyance. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Detestation |
| English words defined with "detestation": Abhorring ♦ Odium theologicum. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He thought his ears being used to such abominable words, might by degrees admit them with less detestation. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Detestation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Detestation" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "detestation": detestation of ♦ hold smth. in detestation. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
detestation | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "detestation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | urrejtje (abomination, enmity, execration, gall, hate, hatred, loathing, malignity, odiousness, odium), neveritje e gjallë, neveritës (loathing, repugnance, repulsion). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقت (abhor, abominate, aversion, be detested, detest, hate, odium, repugnance), شىء مقيت. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, allergy, antipathy, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, horror, loathing, nausea, odium, phobia, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scunner, sickener), омраза (aversion, dislike, hate, hatred, loathing, odium, rancor, rancour), предмет на отвращение (execration). (various references) | |
Czech | ošklivost (disgust, nausea, repugnance, ugliness). (various references) | |
Finnish | inho (abhorrence, disgust, loathing). (various references) | |
French | haine, chose détestable. (various references) | |
German | Verabscheuung (abhorrence, abomination, loathing), Abscheu (abhorrence, abomination, horror). (various references) | |
Greek | σίχαμα (abomination), μίσοσ (bad blood, odium, rancor, rancour), απέχθεια (abomination), αποστροφή (apostrophe, aversion). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תעוב (abhorrence, abomination, loathing, revulsion), שקץ (abomination, bum, unclean), שנאה (animosity, bad blood, enmity, grudge, hate, hatred, ill will, odium, rancor), געילה (abhorrence, loathing), געל נפש (disgust, loathing, nausea, odiousness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | utálat (abomination, dislike, abhorrence, distaste, hatred, loathing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kebencian (abhorrence, animus, dislike, hate, hatred, hostility, loathing, rancour). (various references) | |
Italian | odio (hate, odium), avversione (dislike, aversion, abhorrence, disgust, disinclination, nausea), abominio. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蛇蝎 (serpentand scorpion), 蛇蠍 (serpentand scorpion), 厭悪 (dislike). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | えんお (dislike), だかつ (serpentand scorpion). (various references) | |
Manx | dwoaieys (detestability, vileness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etestationday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | detestação, repulsa (repulse). (various references) | |
Romanian | lucru detestabil. (various references) | |
Russian | сильное отвращение, омерзение (execration, recoil), ненависть (hatred). (various references) | |
Spanish | detestación, odio (hate, abhorrence), aborrecimiento (abhorrence, loathing). (various references) | |
Swedish | avskydd sak, avskydd person, avsky (abominate, abhor, abomination, execration, loathe). (various references) | |
Turkish | nefret (abhorrence, abomination, animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, contempt, despite, disgust, dislike, distaste, down, enmity, execration, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, miso-, odiousness, odium, repugnance, repulsion), iğrenme (abhorrence, abomination, contempt, disgust, execration, hate, loathing, nausea, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сильна відраза, обридлива людина, бридка річ. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự ghê tởm cái đáng ghét, sự ghét cay ghét đắng (execration), cái đáng ghê tởm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abominatio, abominationem, abominationes, abominationesque, abominationi, abominationibus, abominationis, abominationum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "detestation": detestations. (additional references) | |
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"Detestation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: detastation, devestation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-o-s-t-t-t" | |
-2 letters: antidotes, detonates, intestate, stationed, tetanised. | |
-3 letters: andesite, anisette, antidote, astonied, attested, detonate, dinettes, dottiest, endostea, insetted, instated, nattiest, nettiest, noisette, sedation, steatite, tentiest, teosinte, tetanies, tetanise, tetanoid, tonettes. | |
-4 letters: aniseed, atonies, attends, denotes, dentate, dentist, destain, destine, detains, detents, dinette, distant, distent, donates, dotiest, endites, estated, etatist, etesian, ideates, instate, instead, iodates, neatest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-n-o-s-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: detestations. | |
+4 letters: tatterdemalions. | |
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