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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be bothered; care |
| Synonyms: | be affronted, be opposed, complain, deplore, disapprove, dislike, look askance at, object, resent, take offense |
| Main Entry: | odium |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shame, dishonor |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, bar sinister, black eye, blame, blot, blur, brand, censure, condemnation, detestation, disapproval, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, disgrace, dislike, dispprobation, disrepute, enmity, execration, hate, hatred, ignominy, infamy, malice, obloquy, onus, opprobrium, rebuke, reprobation, resentment, slur, spot, stain, stigma |
| Antonyms: | approval, honor, regard, respect |
| Main Entry: | phobia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fear |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, aversion, avoidance, awe, detestation, disgust, dislike, distaste, dread, fear, hang-up, hatred, horror, irrationality, loathing, neurosis, obsession, repulsion, resentment, revulsion, terror, thing about, thing* |
| Antonyms: | liking, love |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prejudice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief without basis, information; intolerance |
| Synonyms: | ageism, animosity, antipathy, apartheid, aversion, bad opinion, bias, bigotry, chauvinism, contemptuousness, detriment, discrimination, disgust, dislike, displeasure, disrelish, enmity, foregone conclusion, illiberality, injustice, jaundiced eye, mindset, misjudgment, narrow-mindedness, one-sidedness, partiality, pique, preconceived notion, preconception, prejudgment, prepossession, racism, repugnance, revulsion, sexism, slant, spleen, tilt, twist, umbrage, unfairness, warp, xenophobia |
| Notes: | a person's bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining the facts |
| Antonyms: | fairness, justice, regard, respect, tolerance |
| Main Entry: | resent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be angry about |
| Synonyms: | be in a huff, be insulted, be offended by, be put off by, be rubbed wrong way, be vexed, bear a grudge, begrudge, dislike, feel bitter, feel sore, frown at, get nose out of joint, grudge, harbor a grudge, have hard feelings, object to, take amiss, take as an insult, take exception, take offense, take umbrage |
| Antonyms: | be happy, like, love |
| Main Entry: | revulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disgust, hatred |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, aversion, detestation, dislike, distaste, hate, horror, loathing, recoil, repugnance, repulsion |
| Antonyms: | like, liking, love, loving |
| Main Entry: | repugnance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aversion |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, antipathy, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, hostility, objection, revulsion |
| Main Entry: | spleen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hate |
| Synonyms: | anger, caprice, choler, depression, dislike, grudge, hatred, hostility, ire, lien, malice, melancholy, milt, rancor, resentment, spite, whim, wrath |
| Antonyms: | good humor |
| Main Entry: | averseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unwillingness |
| Synonyms: | aversion, disinclination, dislike, distaste, indisposition, loathing, loathness, opposition, reluctance, repugnance |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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