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abhorrent

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Main Entry: abhorrent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disgusting

Synonyms:

despicable, detestable, execrable, loathsome, offensive, repulsive, revolting
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
Main Entry: contemptible
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: despicable, shameful

Synonyms:

abhorrent, abject, abominable, bad, base, beggarly, cheap, crass, currish, degenerate, despisable, detestable, dirty, disgusting, hateful, heel, ignoble, ignominious, inferior, low, low-down, lowest, mean, odious, outcast, paltry, pitiable, pitiful, poor, sad, scummy, scurvy, shabby, sordid, sorry*, swinish, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched
Notes: contemptible means deserving contempt, while contemptuous means bestowing contempt; the first sense of contemptuous was 'despising law and order'

Antonyms:

admirable, admired, good, honorable, loved, respectable, worthy
Main Entry: damnable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: atrocious, horrible

Synonyms:

abhorrent, abominable, accursed, blamed, blessed, culpable, cursed, dang, darn, depraved, despicable, detestable, dratted, execrable, hateful, odious, offensive, outrageous, wicked

Antonyms:

admirable, blessed, cherished, exalted, favorable, favored, good, laudatory, loveable, praiseworthy
Main Entry: detestable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: loathsome, abominable

Synonyms:

abhorred, abhorrent, accursed, atrocious, awful, despicable, disgusting, execrable, godawful, grody, gross*, hateable, hateful, heinous, horrid, lousy, low-down, maggot, monstrous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shocking, sorry, vile

Antonyms:

admirable, adorable, adored, cherished, likeable, loveable, prized, respectable, respected
Main Entry: distasteful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: repulsive, unpleasant

Synonyms:

abhorrent, abominable, afflictive, bitter, detestable, disagreeable, dislikable, displeasing, flat, flavorless, galling, grievous, grody, gross*, hateful, icky, insipid, loathsome, nauseous, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, painful, repellent, repugnant, savorless, tasteless, unappetizing, undesirable, uninviting, unlikable, unpalatable, unsavory, yicky, yucky

Antonyms:

agreeable, delectable, delicious, palatable, pleasant, pleasing
Main Entry: execrable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrible, sickening

Synonyms:

abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, confounded, cursed, damnable, defective, deplorable, despicable, detestable, disgusting, foul, hateful, heinous, horrific, loathsome, low, monstrous, nauseous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, repulsive, revolting, vile, wretched

Antonyms:

nice, pleasant
Main Entry: forbidding
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ominous, daunting

Synonyms:

abhorrent, disagreeable, dour, foreboding, frightening, glowering, grim, hostile, menacing, odious, off-putting, offensive, repellent, repulsive, sinister, threatening, tough, ugly, unapproachable, unfriendly, unpleasant

Antonyms:

approachable, friendly, undaunting
Main Entry: foul
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: disgusting, dirty

Synonyms:

abhorrent, abominable, base, contaminated, despicable, detestable, disgraceful, dishonorable, egregious, fetid, filthy, gross*, hateful, heinous, horrid, icky, impure, infamous, iniquitous, loathsome, malodorous, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, offensive, pigpen, polluted, putrid, rank*, raunchy*, repellent, repulsive, revolting, rotten, scandalous, shameful, squalid, stinking, sullied, tainted, unclean, vicious, vile, wicked, yecchy, yucky

Antonyms:

clean, fragrant, pleasing, pure, wonderful
Main Entry: ghastly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrifying, dreadful; pale

Synonyms:

abhorrent, anemic, appalling, ashen, awful, bloodless, cadaverous, corpselike, deathlike, dim, disgusting, faint, frightening, frightful, funereal, ghostly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, haggard, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, livid, loathsome, lurid, macabre, mortuary, nauseating, offensive, pallid, repellent, repulsive, sepulchral, shocking, sickening, spectral, supernatural, terrible, terrifying, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, unpleasant, wan, weak, wraithlike

Antonyms:

delightful, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful
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