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Word Meanings - ABHORRENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.

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  • CONTRARIETY
    1. The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism. There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses. South. 2. Something which is contrary to,
  • NUISANCE
    That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious. Note: Nuisances are public when they annoy citizens in general; private, when they affect individuals only. (more info) nocentia guilt, fr. nocere to hurt, harm;
  • BLESSING
    A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
  • OPPOSITIONIST
    One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
  • DISLIKE
    1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
  • NAUSEANT
    A substance which produces nausea.
  • CURSEDLY
    In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
  • ABOMINATION
    1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. 2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred;
  • HATRED
    Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil. Syn. -- Odium; ill will; enmity; hate; animosity; malevolence; rancor; malignity; detestation; loathing; abhorrence; repugnance; antipathy.
  • INFLICTION
    1. The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment. 2. That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc. His severest inflictions are in themselves acts of justice and righteousness.
  • AVERSION
    1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of
  • ANNOYANCE
    1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies.
  • CURSED
    Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.
  • DISTASTEFUL
    1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or
  • BLESSEDLY
    Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney.
  • DISGUSTFUL
    Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.
  • REVOLUTION
    The motion of any body, as a planet or satellite, in a curved line or orbit, until it returns to the same point again, or to a point relatively the same; -- designated as the annual, anomalistic, nodical, sidereal, or tropical revolution, according
  • REVOLUTIONIZE
    To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames. The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. J. M. Mason.
  • NAUSEATION
    The act of nauseating, or the state of being nauseated.
  • REVULSION
    The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation. (more info) revulsum, to pluck or pull away; pref. re- re- + vellere
  • CURBLESS
    Having no curb or restraint.
  • CONSTABLESS
    The wife of a constable.
  • RIBLESS
    Having no ribs.
  • LIMBLESS
    Destitute of limbs.
  • THUMBLESS
    Without a thumb. Darwin.
  • PRECURSE
    A forerunning. Shak.
  • KSHATRIYA; KSHATRUYA
    The military caste, the second of the four great Hindoo castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste.
  • CUBLESS
    Having no cubs. Byron.
  • SHRUBLESS
    having no shrubs. Byron.
  • COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY; COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY
    marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary.

 

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