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Definition: Detest |
DetestVerb1. Dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "detest" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Note: Detest \De*test"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Detested; present participle verb or noun Detesting.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Detest is simply to witness against. (Latin, de-testor.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: DetestSynonym: hate (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: love (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Loathe, nauseate, abominate, detest, abhor; hate; take amiss; have enough of; (be satiated). |
Hate | Verb: hate, detest, abominate, abhor, loathe; recoil at, shudder at; shrink from, view with horror, hold in abomination, revolt against, execrate;scowl; disrelish; (dislike). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Detest |
| English words defined with "detest": Detesting, Detesttate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "detest": Things Hackers Detest and Avoid ♦ Wool. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "detest": Detesttate. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I detest cheap sentiment (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Everything I did, everything you saw, because there's nothing that I detest more than the stench of lies (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Must you inflate your tire here, Edward? : I detest the very air of this place!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Homer | I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another. |
Lord Byron | I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. |
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort | I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There in the synagogue, in the mosque, a hideous side that we detest, and in the pagoda and in the wigwam, a sublime aspect that we adore |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | But all of this is only a small part of the total effort that must be made-I think chiefly by the local governments throughout the Nation-if we expect to reduce the toll of crime that we all detest. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Detest" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 82.24% of the time. "Detest" is used about 107 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 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 82.24% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 17.76% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "detest": things Hackers Detest and Avoid. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "detest"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | urrej (abhor, abominate, execrate, hate, loathe), neverit (abhor, cloy, contempt, disdain, disgust, repulse, scorn, sicken), neveris (abhor, cloy, contempt, disdain, disgust, scorn, sicken). (various references) | |
Arabic | كره (abhor, abominate, aversion, be offensive, be repugnant, be repulsive, become hateful, coerce, compel, constrain, despise, disfavor, disfavour, disincline, dislike, drive, force, hate, hating, loathe, swagger), مقت (abhor, abominate, aversion, be detested, detestation, hate, odium, repugnance), أبغض (hate, loathe). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отвращавам се (abhor, be detested, be disgusted, recoil, revolt), мразя (abhor, disrelish, hate, loathe). (various references) | |
Chinese | 厌恨 (Detested, Detesting), 憎恨 (hatred), 憎 . (various references) | |
Czech | protivit si (hate), nesnášet (hate, resent), nenávidìt (come to hate, hate), hnusit si (abhor, abominate). (various references) | |
Farsi | نفرت کردن , تنفرداشتن از (Abhor, Mislike), بیزاربودن از. (various references) | |
Finnish | inhota (abhor, abominate, have a loathing for, loathe). (various references) | |
French | détestons, détester (be detested, despise), haïr, exécrer, avoir horreur de faire, abominons, abominez. (various references) | |
German | verabscheuen (abhor, abominate, loathe). (various references) | |
Greek | σιχαίνομαι (abhor, loathe), απεχθάνομαι (abhor, abominate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | למאוס (abhor, despise, hate, reject), לתעב (abhor, execrate, loathe), לשקץ (abhor, loathe, reject), לשנוא (abhor, dislike, hate), לקוץ (abhor, loathe), לגעול (abhor, abominate, loathe), לבחול (abhor, disdain, hate, loathe). (various references) | |
Hungarian | utál (loathe, to abominate, to detest), gyûlöl (abhor, hate, loathe). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menjijikkan (abhor, abominable, abominate, detestable, disgust, disgusting, displease, execrable, insulting, loathing, odious, reprehensible, repugnant, satiate, scandalize), benci (abhor, abhorrence, animosity, dislike, hate, loathsome, odious). (various references) | |
Italian | detestare (abhor, abominate, loathe), odio (hate, odium), odiare (hate), avere in orrore (abhor, loathe). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 忌み嫌う. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | にくむ (to detest, to hate), いむ (medical affairs, to avoid, to detest, to refrain from, to shun), いやむ (to detest, to dislike), いみきらう (to abhor, to detest, to loathe). (various references) | |
Manx | cur dwoaie da (abominate, hate). (various references) | |
Norwegian | avsky (abhor, loathe). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etestday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | detestar (abominate, loathe), odiar (hate), abominar (abhor, abominate, loathe). (various references) | |
Romanian | detesta (abhor, abominate, hate, loathe), urî (abhor, hate), nu putea suferi (abhor, abominate, dislike, execrate, loathe). (various references) | |
Russian | ненавидеть (abhor), питать отвращение (abominate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prezirati (contemn, despise, disdain, look down, misprise, misprize, scorn, spit upon), mrzeti (abhor, abominate, hate, loathe). (various references) | |
Spanish | detestar (abhor, abominate, loathe), aborrecer (hate, loathe). (various references) | |
Swedish | avsky (abominate, abhor, abomination, execration, loathe). (various references) | |
Turkish | nefret etmek (abhor, abominate, execrate, hate, hold smth. in detestation, loathe, revolt, revolt against), iğrenmek (abhor, abominate, be disgusted, execrate, hate, hold smth. in detestation, loathe, nauseate, revolt, revolt against), hoşlanmamak (bar, dislike, have down on smb., not to like, regard with disfavor, regard with disfavour, shrink). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ненавидіти (abhor, abominate, execrate, hate, loathe), мати відразу (distaste), проклинати (anathematize, ban, curse, damn, darn, execrate, imprecate). (various references) | |
Welsh | casa/u (abhor, hate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abominaberis, abominabitur, abominabuntur, abominamini, abominandum, abominantur, abominaris, abominata, abominatam, abominati, abominatos, abominatum, abominatur, abominatus, abominor, anathema, anathemate, anathematizare, anathematizavit, detestaberis, detestabitur, detestabuntur, detestanda, detestare, detestari, detestaris, detestatur, detestatus, detester, detestor, execrabantur, execrabile, execrabilia, execrabilis, execrandum, execratis, execratus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "detest": detestable, detestableness, detestablenesses, detestably, detestation, detestations, detested, detester, detesters, detesting, detests. (additional references) | |
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"Detest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: datest, Datost, dayest, detast, detess, detet, didest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "detest" (pronounced dute"st or dēte"st) |
| 5 | -u t e" s t | attest. |
| 4 | -t e" s t | retest, test. |
| 3 | -e" s t | arrest, abreast, acquiesced, addressed, assessed, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Celeste, chest, coalesced, compressed, confessed, congest, crest, impressed, depressed, digest, digressed, dispossessed, distressed, divest, dressed, expressed, fessed, finessed, gest, guessed, guest, infest, ingest, invest, jest, lest, messed, molest, nest, northwest, obsessed, oppressed, pest, possessed, pressed, Prest, professed, progressed, quest, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, repressed, request, rest, southwest, stressed, suggest, suppressed, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unimpressed, unrest, vest, West, wrest, zest. |
| 4 | -t e" s t | attest, retest, test. |
| 3 | -e" s t | arrest, abreast, acquiesced, addressed, assessed, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Celeste, chest, coalesced, compressed, confessed, congest, crest, impressed, depressed, digest, digressed, dispossessed, distressed, divest, dressed, expressed, fessed, finessed, gest, guessed, guest, infest, ingest, invest, jest, lest, messed, molest, nest, northwest, obsessed, oppressed, pest, possessed, pressed, Prest, professed, progressed, quest, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, repressed, request, rest, southwest, stressed, suggest, suppressed, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unimpressed, unrest, vest, West, wrest, zest. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tested. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: deets, steed. | |
-2 letters: dees, deet, seed, sett, stet, teds, teed, tees, test, tets. | |
-3 letters: dee, eds, see, set, ted, tee, tet. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, es, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: deftest, detects, detents, detests, estated, settled, stetted. | |
+2 letters: adeptest, attested, besotted, detentes, detested, detester, dinettes, diskette, gestated, insetted, obtested, restated, retasted, retested, sedatest, tetrodes, tiredest, trusteed, untested, vedettes, videttes. | |
+3 letters: antedates, attendees, attenders, bassetted, besmutted, contested, decentest, defeatist, destitute, detecters, detectors, detesters, detesting, detonates, devastate, devoutest, dietetics, directest, diskettes, dotterels, edentates, entrusted, entwisted, estimated, estivated, estreated, hesitated, meditates, modestest, pretasted, pretested, protested, resettled, respotted, restarted, retwisted, scattered, scuttered, shattered, shuttered, skittered, smattered, sonnetted, spattered, spectated, sputtered, stateside, statewide, steadiest, stoutened, stretched, stuttered, tempested, tenderest, testified, tetanised, trendiest, trisected, tweediest, unsettled, vendettas, wadsetted. | |
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