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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult |
| Synonyms: | arduous, brutal, criminal, cruel, dangerous, deadly, destroying, destructive, devastating, exhausting, fell, ferocious, harrowing, hellish, killing, lethal, ruinous, sapping, savage, strenuous, unpleasant |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | nasty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad-tempered, mean |
| Synonyms: | abusive, annoying, beastly, critical, cruel, despicable, disagreeable, distasteful, evil, fierce, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, ornery, ruthless, sarcastic, sordid, spiteful, squalid, unkind, unpleasant, vicious, vile, wicked |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, friendly, happy, kind, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | obnoxious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, repulsive |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, annoying, awful, beastly, big mouth, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dislikable, displeasing, foul, gross*, hateable, hateful, heel, horrid, insufferable, invidious, loathsome, mean, nasty, nauseating, objectionable, odious, off-color, ornery, pain in the neck, pesky, pestiferous, pill, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, revolting, rotten, sickening, stinking, unpleasant |
| Notes: | noxious means injurious to physical or mental health; obnoxious means very offensive, objectionable, or unpleasant |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, delightful, kind, likeable, nice, pleasant, soft |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | odious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, creepy*, detestable, disgusting, execrable, foul, hateable, horrid, loathsome, mean, obnoxious, offensive, ornery, pain in the neck, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, unpleasant, vile |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, delightful, great, likeable, loveable, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | painful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically or mentally agonizing |
| Synonyms: | aching, afflictive, agonizing, arduous, awful, biting, burning, caustic, difficult, dire, disagreeable, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, excruciating, extreme, extremely bad, grievous, hard, harrowing, hurtful, hurting, inflamed, irritated, laborious, piercing, raw, saddening, sensitive, severe, sharp, smarting, sore, stinging, tedious, tender, terrible, throbbing, tormenting, troublesome, trying, uncomfortable, unpleasant, vexatious |
| Antonyms: | delightful, easy, painless, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | pejorative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | negative, belittling |
| Synonyms: | debasing, deprecatory, depreciatory, derisive, derogatory, detracting, detractive, detractory, disadvantageous, disparaging, irreverent, rude, slighting, uncomplimentary, unpleasant |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, positive, praising |
| Main Entry: | repulsive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very disgusting, offensive |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, animal*, creepy*, disagreeable, distasteful, forbidding, foul, gross, hateful, hideous, horrid, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, off-putting, pugnacious, repellent, revolting, sickening, sleazy*, ugly, undesirable, unpleasant, unsightly, vile |
| Notes: | repulsive describes a characteristic of a person or object; repellent describes an impression projected by a person or object - a person is repulsive, while a person's behavior is repellent |
| Antonyms: | attractive, enchanting, inviting, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rotten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable, inferior, bad |
| Synonyms: | amiss, base, below par, bruised, bum*, contemptible, crummy, defective, deplorable, dirty, disagreeable, disappointing, diseased, displeasing, dissatisfactory, filthy, impaired, inadequate, injured, lousy*, low-grade, mean, nasty, poor, punk*, regrettable, rough, scurrilous, shaky, sorry, sour, substandard, unacceptable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unpleasant, unsatisfactory, unsound, vile, wasted, wicked, withering, wrong |
| Antonyms: | good, kind, nice, superior |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rough |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rude, impolite |
| Synonyms: | bearish, bluff, blunt, boisterous, boorish, brief, brusque, churlish, coarse, crass, crude, cruel, crusty, curt, discourteous, drastic, extreme, gross*, hairy*, hard, harsh, ill-mannered, improper, inconsiderate, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, mean, nasty, raw, rowdy, severe, sharp, short, tough, unceremonious, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unfeeling, ungracious, unjust, unmannerly, unpleasant, unpolished, unrefined, untutored, violent, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | courteous, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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