Category:Odious

O"di*ous, a. Etym: [l. odiosus, from odium hatred: cf. F. odieux. See Odium.]

1. Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, System, vice. "all wickedness will be most odious." Sprat. He rendered himself odious to the parliament. Clarendon.

2. Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; Disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell. Milton. The odious side of that polity. Macaulay.

Syn. -- hateful; detestable; abominable; disgusting; loathsome; Invidious; repulsive; forbidding; unpopular. -- o"di*ous`ly. adv. -- o"di*ous*ness, n.