Odious

Definition: Odious

Odious

Adjective

1. Unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke.

Date "odious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Odious \O"di*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression odiosus, from odium hatred: compare to the French expression odieux. See Odium.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Odious

Synonyms: abominable (adj), detestable (adj), execrable (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Comparison	Phrase: comparisons are odious; " comparisons are odorous ".
Hate	Obnoxious, hateful, odious, abominable, repulsive, offensive, shocking; disgusting; (disagreeable); reprehensible.
Pain	Odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent; horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying; offensive.
Ugliness	Frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive, repugnant, grotesque, bizarre; grody, grody to the max; horrid, horrible; shocking; (painful).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Odious

English words defined with "odious": abominable ♦ Detestability, detestable ♦ execrable ♦ Hatable ♦ Infandous, Inodiate. (references)

Specialty definitions using "odious": BRYAN ♦ Comparisons are Odorous. (references)

Etymologies containing "odious": Detestability. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Be gone, odious wasp! (The Phantom Tollbooth; writing credit: Chuck Jones; Norton Juster)
Clever	Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them. (references; author: Mark Twain)
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Domain	Title
Books	Odious : Gisela von Bruchhausen, Klaus Duschat, Klaus H. Hartmann, Gustav Reinhardt, Hartmut Stielow, David Lee Thompson (reference) Odious child (reference) Odious Commerce : Britain, Spain and the Abolition of the Cuban Slave Trade (reference) Odious Debts: Loose Lending Corruption and the Third Worlds (reference) Odious Duke (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Jeff. D hung on a "sour apple tree" or treason made odious.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Sprat	All false practices and affectations of knowledge are more odious than any want or defect of knowledge can be.
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	They must not do less than others, or she should be exposed to odious suspicions, and imagined capable of pitiful resentment.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He, who gave to all, and so freely, felt this claim was exorbitant and almost odious.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of Yahoo, an odious animal for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests.
James Monroe	1817-1825	Should this proposal be acceded to, it is not doubted that this odious and criminal practice will be promptly and entirely suppressed.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	To make the General Government the instrument of carrying this odious principle into effect would be at once to destroy the means of its usefulness and change the character designed for it by the framers of the Constitution.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Odious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.80% of the time. "Odious" is used about 91 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
Adjective (general or positive)	97.8%	89	34,931
Noun (proper)	2.2%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	91	N/A

Expressions using "odious": become odious ♦ comparisons are odious ♦ make odious ♦ odious crime ♦ odious person. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "odious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		odios, i urrejtshëm (hateful), i neveritshëm (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, contemptible, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, fulsome, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, loathful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, putrid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, sickly, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Arabic		‏كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, frightful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, objectionable, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sickening, sour, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), ‏مكروه (abhorrent, adversity, detestable, discomfort, hateful, misfortune, obnoxious, ugly), ‏مشين (shocking), ‏قبيح (disgusting, fiend, hideous, homely, monstrous, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, ugly, unattractive, unsightly), ‏بغيض (abominable, accursed, antipathetic, beastly, blasted, cursed, damned, detestable, distasteful, dreadful, forbidding, frightful, hateful, horrid, impossible, nasty, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, sticky, ungrateful, unhappy, unlikely, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome, villainous). (various references)

Bulgarian		отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), омразен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, detestable, hateful, obnoxious), ненавистен (hateful), противен (abhorrent, abominable, adverse, bastard, contrary, cross, disagreeable, foul, fulsome, ghastly, gross, horrid, loud, mucky, nameless, nasty, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, opposing, pestilential, rebarbative, repugnant, repulsive, scarlet, sickening, sickly, sorry, sour, squalid, swinish, ugly, unattractive, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, vexatious, vile, villainous). (various references)

Chinese		臭色. (various references)

Czech		ohavný (abominable, despicable, detestable, execrable, ghastly, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrid, ugly, unspeakable, vile, villainous), odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile), protivný (aggravating, beastly, bitchy, disagreeable, hateful, horrid, irksome, lousy, molestful, nasty, noisome, obnoxious), nenávidìný, nechutný (disgusting, distasteful, mawkish, pasty, repulsive, revolting, unappetizing, unpalatable, unsavory), budící nenávist. (various references)

Farsi		نفرت انگیز (Detestable, Execrable, Gruesome, Horrid, Invidious, Loathsome, Obnoxious), کراهت اور. (various references)

Finnish		vihattava (detestable, hateful). (various references)

French		odieux. (various references)

German		verhasst (hated, hateful, loathsome, odiously). (various references)

Greek		μισητόσ (abhorrent, abominable, detestable, hated, hateful, invidious, obnoxious), απεχθήσ (abhorrent, abject, abominable, loathful, loathsome, obnoxious, repugnant, revolting), αποκρουστικόσ (abhorrent, forbidding, obnoxious, repellent, repulsive, revolting). (various references)

Hebrew		מוקצה מחמת מאוס (loathsome, untouchable), מגונה (disgraceful, foul, fulsome, improper, indecent, obnoxious, obscene, opprobrious, shameful), מבחיל (nasty, nauseous, queasy, revolting, sickening, sickly), שנוא (abhorrent, detestable, hatable, hated), נתעב (abhorred, abominable, detestable, foul, gruesome, hateful, loathsome, obnoxious, vile). (various references)

Hungarian		undok (abominable, execrable, hideous, nasty, nauseating, nauseous), utálatos (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, detestable, dismal, distasteful, dreary, execrable, ghastly, groaty, grotty, gruesome, hateful, hideous, horrible, loathful, loathsome, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, poisonous, rank), gyűlöletes (abominable, hateable, hateful, loathsome, rank). (various references)

Indonesian		menjijikkan (abhor, abominable, abominate, detest, detestable, disgust, disgusting, displease, execrable, insulting, loathing, reprehensible, repugnant, satiate, scandalize), membencikan (abominate, hate), benci (abhor, abhorrence, animosity, detest, dislike, hate, loathsome). (various references)

Italian		odioso (accursed, cursed, detestable, hated, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrid, invidious, obnoxious, unpleasant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		憎らしい (hateful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		にくらしい (hateful). (various references)

Manx		eajee (atrocious, filthy, ghastly, monstrous). (various references)

Pig Latin		odiousay

Portuguese		odioso (abhorrent, abject, damnable, hatred, heinous crime, invigilate, loathful, loathsome, nasty, rancorous), odin, execrável (damnable, execrate, nefarious), detestável (abhorrent, damned, detestable, hateful, invidious, loathing, lob, nasty, rancid), abominável (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, alien, atrocious, awful, dismal, dreary, foul, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, infamous character, nasty, negate). (various references)

Romanian		odios (detestable, foul, hateful, odiously, repulsive), respingãtor (abhorrent, awful, awfully, disagreeable, dreadful, dreadfully, forbidding, foul, fulsome, hideous, infamous, obnoxious, obscene, odiousness, offensive, pestilent, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, repulsively, scurvy, unprepossessing, verminous), dezgustãtor (abominable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsome, loathsomely, nasty, nauseous, obscene, odiously, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, scurvy, sickening, unsavory, unsavoury, vile), detestabil (accursed, detestable, execrable, foul, hateful, loathsome, odiously). (various references)

Russian		одиозный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		omrznut (hated), odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, snotty, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely, vile), mrzak (abhorrent, detestable, hateful, heinous, loath, loathful, loth, obnoxious), gadan (beastly, disgustful, disgusting, foul, haggish, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, seamy, sick, ugly, vile). (various references)

Spanish		odioso (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, despiteful, detestable, hated, hateful, invidious, obnoxious, poisonous). (various references)

Swedish		gemen (accustomed, base, currish, customary, dirty, filthy, foul, friendly, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, lowercase, low-minded, mean, scurvy, sociable, used to, usual, wicked, wonted), förhatlig (hateful, invidious). (various references)

Thai		น่ารังเกียจ (clingin, foul, hateable, icky-poo, loathsome, lousy, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, putrid). (various references)

Turkish		tiksindirici (abominable, cloying, detestable, disgusting, fulsome, loathsome, mawkish, putrid, qualmish, sickening, squirmy), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck). (various references)

Ukranian		відразливий (abhorrent, forbidding, horrid, loathsome, nauseous), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), одіозний, ненависний (accursed, accurst, cussed, hateable, hateful, invidious), мерзенний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, atrocious, caitiff, ghoulish, hangdog, hateful, heinous, nasty, nefandous, nefarious, niddering, sordid, villainous, wretched). (various references)

Vietnamese		ghê tởm (abhorrent, abominable, anathematic, anathematical, cursed, cursedly, disgustedly, disgustful, grisly, loathly, loathsome, rebarbative, repulsive). (various references)

Welsh		gwrthun (absurd, repugnant), cas (aversion, disagreeable, enemy, foe, hateful, hater, hatred, nasty), atgas (dispicable, hateful, perverse). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	abominandum, odibilem, odibiles, odibili, odibilia, odibilis, odiosus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 23
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai oiketiV ean ekbalh thn eauthV kurian kai mishth gunh ean tuch androV agaqou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Per odiosam mulierem cum in matrimonio fuerit adsumpta et per ancillam cum heres fuerit dominae suae
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Bi an hateful womman, whan she were taken in to matrimoyne; and bi an hand womman, whan she were eir of hir ladi.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.
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Language	Proverbs Chapter 30, Verse 23
Cebuano	Alang sa usa ka dulumtanan nga babaye kong siya maminyo; Ug sa usa ka sulogoon nga babaye nga maoy manununod sa iyang agalon nga babaye.
Croatian	od puštenice kad se uda i sluškinje kad istisne svoju gospodaricu.
Danish	en bortstødt Hustru, når hun bliver gift, en Trælkvinde, når hun arver sin Frue.
Dutch	Om een hatelijke vrouw, als zij getrouwd wordt; en een dienstmaagd, als zij erfgenaam is van haar vrouw.
Finnish	hyljityn alla, kun hän miehen saa, ja palvelijattaren, kun hän emäntänsä syrjäyttää.
French	Une femme dédaignée qui se marie, Et une servante qui hérite de sa maîtresse.
German	eine Verschmähte, wenn sie geehelicht wird; und eine Magd, wenn sie ihrer Frau Erbin wird.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	seorang wanita yang berhasil menikah padahal ia tidak disukai orang, seorang hamba perempuan yang merampas kedudukan nyonyanya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	dan karena seorang perempuan yang hina apabila ia berlaki, dan seorang sahaya apabila ia menjadi waris enciknya.
Italian	una donna gia trascurata da tutti che trovi marito e una schiava che prenda il posto della padrona.
Maori	Ko te wahine whakarihariha ina whiwhi i te tane; a ko te pononga wahine ina tuku iho mana nga mea a tona rangatira.
Norwegian	under en forsmådd kvinne når hun blir gift, og en tjenestepike når hun arver sin frue.
Portuguese	a mulher desdenhada quando se casa; e a serva quando fica herdeira da sua senhora.
Rumanian	o femeie dispreyuitq care se mqritq, wi o roabq care mowtenewte pe stqpknq-sa. -
Russian	РПЪПТОХА ЦЕОЭЙОХ, ЛПЗДБ ПОБ ЧЩИПДЙФ ЪБНХЦ, Й УМХЦБОЛХ, ЛПЗДБ ПОБ ЪБОЙНБЕФ НЕУФП ЗПУРПЦЙ УЧПЕК.
Spanish	por la mujer aborrecida, cuando se casa; y por una criada que hereda a su señora.
Swedish	under en försmådd kvinna, när hon får man och en tjänstekvinna, när hon tränger undan sin fru.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "odious": odiously, odiousness, odiousnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "odious": commodious, incommodious, melodious, unmelodious. (additional references)
	Words containing "odious": commodiously, commodiousness, commodiousnesses, incommodiously, incommodiousness, incommodiousnesses, melodiously, melodiousness, melodiousnesses, unmelodiousness, unmelodiousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Odious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adious, edious, ndlovus, obious, Oddbods, odeous, odeus, odilus, odio, odios, odipus, odius, odnous, odvious, Ojocs, ojos, olious, ordenours, Osios, Osirus, otious, ovious, Oyigoua. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "odious" (pronounced ō"dēus)
5	ō" d ē u s	commodious, melodious.
4	-d ē u s	fastidious, hideous, insidious, invidious, radius, studious, tedious.
3	-ē u s	acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, felonious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, harmonious, hilarious, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, illustrious, imperious, impervious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, instantaneous, laborious, lascivious, lugubrious, luxurious, meritorious, miscellaneous, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, pancreas, penurious, percutaneous, precarious, previous, punctilious, sanctimonious, Sartorius, serious, simultaneous, spontaneous, spurious, supercilious, unceremonious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: iodous.
	Words within the letters "d-i-o-o-s-u"
	-2 letters: duos, ouds, udos.
	-3 letters: dis, dos, dui, duo, ids, ods, oud, sod, sou, udo.
	-4 letters: do, id, is, od, os, si, so, us.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-o-o-s-u"
	+2 letters: boudoirs, dioicous, idoneous, modiolus, odiously.
	+3 letters: autocoids, bodacious, dioecious, doupionis, duopolies, groupoids, lustihood, melodious.
	+4 letters: audiobooks, commodious, cousinhood, diadromous, dimorphous, diplodocus, disulfoton, doronicums, duodecimos, duopsonies, fruitwoods, guidebooks, hoodlumish, hoodlumism, ideologues, idolatrous, iguanodons, indecorous, lustihoods, nidicolous, odiousness, ophiuroids, prodigious, tulipwoods.
	+5 letters: audiologies, audiologist, avoirdupois, bloodguilts, bodaciously, compendious, conductions, cousinhoods, devolutions, dichogamous, dichotomous, dicoumarols, diplococcus, dissolution, disulfotons, duopolistic, foundations, hoodlumisms, lycopodiums, melodiously, modulations, nodulations, nondiscount, odoriferous, outpromised, outscolding, productions, pseudopodia, rhomboideus, stylopodium, unmelodious, urediospore.
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