odious definizione dal dizionario inglese italiano

Definizione monolingua

odious

odious (comparative more odious, superlative most odious)

1. Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.

   Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.

   • 1903, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes^Wikisource:

     ""He was a dreadful person, a bully to everyone else, but to me something infinitely worse. He made odious love to me, boasted of his wealth, said that if I married him I would have the finest diamonds in London, and finally, when I would have nothing to do with him, he seized me in his arms one day after dinner -- he was hideously strong -- and he swore that he would not let me go until I had kissed him.""

   • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 6, Frankenstein^[1]:

     He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.

Definizione dizionario odious

	odioso
	Provoking hate, aversion, disaproval.

	insopportabile
	Provoking hate, aversion, disaproval.

abominevole

disgustoso

orrendo

orribile

ripugnante

Altri significati:

Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.