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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, beastly, bitchy, creepy, deplorable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, gross, hideous, horrible, invidious, lousy, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, odious, offensive, pesky, pestiferous, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sleazy*, slimy*, uncool, vile |
| Antonyms: | liking, lovable, respectful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abominable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awful, detestable |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, contemptible, cursed, despicable, disgusting, foul, grim, grody, gross*, hairy*, hateful, heinous, hellish, horrible, horrid, loathsome, lousy, nauseating, obnoxious, odious, offensive, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sleazy*, stinking, terrible, vile, wretched |
| Antonyms: | alluring, appealing, delightful, desirable, enjoyable, likeable, lovable, pleasant, sweet, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | atrocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive |
| Synonyms: | appalling, awful, bad, beastly, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, execrable, foul, godawful, grody, gross*, horrible, horrid, horrifying, icky, loathsome, noisome, obscene, repulsive, rotten, sickening, terrible |
| Antonyms: | inoffensive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | base |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, low |
| Synonyms: | abject, abominable, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, corrupt, depraved, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, foul, grovelling, humble, ignoble, immoral, indelicate, loathsome, lowly, mean, menial, offensive, paltry, pitiful, plebeian, poor, scandalous, servile, shameful, shoddy, sleazy, sordid, sorry, squalid, trashy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
| Antonyms: | good, honest, moral, noble |
| Main Entry: | beastly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | savage; vulgar |
| Synonyms: | abominable, animal, barbarous, base, bestial, boorish, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, cruel, degraded, depraved, disgusting, feral, ferine, foul, gluttonous, gross, inhuman, irrational, loathsome, low, monstrous, obscene, piggish, prurient, repulsive, sadistic, swinish, unclean, vile |
| Antonyms: | good, kind, nice, superior |
| Main Entry: | cursed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detestable, hateful |
| Synonyms: | abominable, accursed, atrocious, damnable, devilish, disgusting, execrable, fiendish, heinous, infamous, infernal, loathsome, odious, pernicious, pestilential, vile |
| Antonyms: | great, kind, nice, sweet |
| Main Entry: | damned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful, unwelcome |
| Synonyms: | accursed, all-fired, anathematized, bad, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed*, bloody*, blooming, condemned, confounded, cursed, cussed, damnable, dang, darn, darned, despicable, detestable, doggone, done for, doomed, dratted, execrable, gone to blazes, infamous, infernal, loathsome, lost, lousy, reprobate, revolting, unhappy, voodooed |
| Antonyms: | blessed, cherished, favored, likeable, loveable, nice, praiseworthy, welcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | despicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful; beyond contempt |
| Synonyms: | abject, awful, base, beastly, cheap, contemptible, degrading, detestable, dirty, disgraceful, disreputable, down, ignominious, infamous, insignificant, loathsome, low, low-life, mean, no-good, pitiful, reprehensible, shameful, slimy*, sordid, vile, worthless, wretched |
| Antonyms: | desirous, honorable, likeable, loveable, respectable, virtuous, worthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disgusting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickening; repulsive |
| Synonyms: | abominable, awful, beastly, cloying, creepy, detestable, distasteful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grody, gross*, gruesome, hateful, hideous, horrid, horrific, icky, loathsome, lousy, macabre, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nerdy, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repellent, repugnant, revolting, rotten, satiating, scandalous, scuzzy, shameless, shocking, sleazeball, sleazy*, stinking, surfeiting, vile, vulgar, yecchy, yucky |
| Antonyms: | attractive, desirous, pleasant, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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