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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outrageous; very surprising |
| Synonyms: | abominable, appalling, atrocious, awful, burning, crying, desperate, detestable, direful, disgraceful, disgusting, disquieting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, formidable, foul, frightful, ghastly, glaring, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, loathsome, monstrous, nauseating, odious, offensive, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, shameful, sickening, stupefying, terrible, ugly, unspeakable |
| Antonyms: | calming, comforting, soothing |
| Main Entry: | undesirable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, unacceptable |
| Synonyms: | abominable, annoying, bothersome, defective, disagreeable, disliked, displeasing, distasteful, dreaded, icky, inadmissible, incommodious, inconvenient, inexpedient, insufferable, loathed, loathsome, objectionable, obnoxious, out of place, outcast, rejected, repellent, repugnant, scorned, shunned, to be avoided, troublesome, unattractive, unlikable, unpleasing, unpopular, unsatisfactory, unsavory, unsought, unsuitable, unwanted, unwelcome, unwished for, useless |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, appealing, desirable, pleasing, savory |
| Main Entry: | unspeakable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad; beyond description |
| Synonyms: | abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, beastly, beyond words, calamitous, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, fearful, frightening, frightful, heinous, horrible, horrid, incommunicable, inconceivable, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, inexpressible, inhuman, loathsome, monstrous, nameless, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, overwhelming, preternatural, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, unbelievable, unimaginable, unutterable |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
| Main Entry: | wicked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, bad |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, abominable, amoral, arch, atrocious, bad news, base, contemptible, debased, degenerate, depraved, devilish, dissolute, egregious, evil, fiendish, flagitious, foul, gross, guilty, heartless, heinous, immoral, impious, impish, incorrigible, indecent, iniquitous, irreligious, low-down, mean, mischievous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, profane, reprobate, rotten, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, unethical, unprincipled, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villainous, wayward, worthless |
| Antonyms: | decent, good, moral, nice |
| Main Entry: | yucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgusting |
| Synonyms: | abominable, awful, beastly, crappy*, creepy, cruddy, crummy, detestable, distasteful, foul, funky*, grody, gross, gruesome, hideous, icky, loathsome, lousy, nasty, nauseating, odious, offensive, raunchy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scuzzy, sickening, skanky, sleazy*, stinking, vile, vulgar, yecchy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | horrible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fairy, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrid, loathsome, lousy, lurid, mean, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocking, sickie, terrible, terrifying, ungodly, unholy, unkind |
| Notes: | in decreasing degree of horror: horrific, horrendous, horrible, horrid |
| Antonyms: | pleasant |
| Main Entry: | horrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, bloodcurdling, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, gruesome, hair-raising, heinous, hideous, horrific, loathsome, lou |
| Notes: | in decreasing degree of horror: horrific, horrendous, horrible, horrid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | horrific |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, bloodcurdling, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, gruesome, hair-raising, heinous, hideous, horrid, loathsome, lousy |
| Notes: | in decreasing degree of horror: horrific, horrendous, horrible, horrid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incommunicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unspeakable |
| Synonyms: | abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, beastly, beyond words, calamitous, defying description, description, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, fearful, frightening, frightful, heinous, horrible, horrid, inconceivable, indefinable, indescribable, ineffable, inexpressible, inhuman, loathsome, monstrous, nameless, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, overwhelming, preternatural, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, unbelievable, undescribable, unimaginable, unutterable |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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