Abhorrent
[əb'hɒr(ə)nt] or [əb'hɔrənt]
Definition
(adj.) offensive to the mind; 'an abhorrent deed'; 'the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee'; 'morally repugnant customs'; 'repulsive behavior'; 'the most repulsive character in recent novels' .
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Definition
(a.) Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.
(a.) Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to.
(a.) Detestable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Hating, detesting, abominating, loathing.[2]. Odious, offensive, shocking, repugnant, hateful, loathsome.
Editor: Tracy
Examples
- They were implicated with each other in abhorrent mysteries. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Simultaneously, there came the unearthly abhorrent scream of a rabbit in the fear of death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Hideous, abhorrent, base blunder! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A residence in Turkey was abhorrent to her; her religion and feelings were alike adverse to it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The hot narrow intimacy between man and wife was abhorrent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was a league between them, abhorrent to them both. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He gloated over every abhorrent adjective in the description, and identified himself with every witness at the Inquest. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The merging, the clutching, the mingling of love was become madly abhorrent to him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He regarded me with a look of affection that made him almost abhorrent to me again, though I had felt great pity for him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There is no indignity so abhorrent to their feelings! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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