odious Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

O"di*ous adjective
Etymology
L. odiosus, from odium hatred: cf. F. odieux. See Odium.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913