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abomination - 17 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | abomination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object of extreme dislike, hate |
| Synonyms: | anathema, aversion, bother, curse, detestation, evil, horror, nuisance, plague, shame, torment |
| Antonyms: | beauty, blessing, delight, enjoyment, esteem, joy, love, treat |
| Main Entry: | abomination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wrongdoing |
| Synonyms: | crime, offense, wrong |
| Antonyms: | benefit, right |
| Main Entry: | aversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dislike; opposition |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, allergy, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, disfavor, disgust, disinclination, displeasure, dissatisfaction, distaste, dread, hate, hatred, horror, hostility, indisposition, loathing, odium, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, disliking, having no use for, unwillingness |
| Notes: | aversion is something that originates from within, whereas adversity is something that originates from without; adverse is usually applied to situations while averse is used to describe a person's attitude |
| Antonyms: | affection, attachment, care, fondness, kindness, like, liking, love, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | crime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense against the law |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrocity, breach, break, caper, case, corruption, delinquency, depravity, dereliction, enormity, evil, fault, felony, hit, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, transgression, trespass, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, antisocial behavior, criminality, delict, delictum, evil behavior, fast one, illegality, immorality, malefaction, tort, unlawful act |
| Antonyms: | good deed, kindness |
| Main Entry: | disgust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aversion; repulsion |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, detestation, dislike, distaste, hatred, loathing, nausea, objection, repugnance, revolt, revulsion, sickness, surfeit, hatefulness, nauseation, nauseousness, satiation, satiety |
| Antonyms: | admiration, appeal, desire, esteem, fondness, like, liking, loving, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | execration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hating |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, anathema, blasphemy, condemnation, contempt, curse, damnation, denunciation, detestation, hatred, imprecation, loathing, malediction, odium, profanity, swearing, cursing, cussing, detesting, excoriation, vilification |
| Antonyms: | liking, loving |
| Main Entry: | hate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme dislike |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, anathema, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bête noire*, bother, bugbear*, detestation, disgust, enmity, execration, frost*, grievance, gripe, hatred, horror, hostility, ill will, irritant, loathing, malevolence, nuisance, objection, odium, pain, rancor, rankling, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, revenge, revulsion, scorn, spite, trouble, venom, black beast, malignity, mislike, nasty look, no love lost |
| Antonyms: | liking, love, loving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hatred |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe dislike |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, acrimony, alienation, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, contempt, detestation, disapproval, disfavor, disgust, displeasure, distaste, enmity, envy, execration, grudge, hard feelings, hate, horror, hostility, ignominy, ill will, loathing, malevolence, malice, odium, pique, prejudice, rancor, repugnance, repulsion, revenge, revulsion, scorn, spite, spleen, venom, allergy to, coldness, invidiousness, malignance, militancy, no use for |
| Antonyms: | like, liking, love, loving |
| Main Entry: | horror |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fear, revulsion |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, alarm, antipathy, apprehension, aversion, awe, consternation, detestation, disgust, dislike, dismay, dread, fright, hate, hatred, loathing, monstrosity, panic, repugnance, terror, trepidation, chiller |
| Antonyms: | beauty, delight, miracle, pleasure, wonder |
| Main Entry: | infamy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shameful, bad reputation |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrocity, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, enormity, evil, ignominy, impropriety, notoriety, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, scandal, shame, stigma, villainy, wickedness, disapprobation, disesteem, immorality, notoriousness, outrageousness |
| Antonyms: | dignity, goodness, innocence, morality, righteousness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | iniquity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sin, evil |
| Synonyms: | abomination, baseness, crime, infamy, injustice, misdeed, offense, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, evildoing, heinousness, immorality, miscreancy, sinfulness, unfairness, unrighteousness |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | obscenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency, immorality; vulgarism |
| Synonyms: | abomination, affront, atrocity, blight, coarseness, curse, dirty word*, evil, four-letter word*, impropriety, impurity, indecency, lewdness, offense, outrage, pornography, profanity, smut*, vulgarity, wrong, X-rating, bawdiness, blueness, dirtiness, dirty name, filthiness, foulness, immodesty, indelicacy, licentiousness, lubricity, porn, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, sleaze, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness |
| Antonyms: | decency, innocence, morality, propriety, purity, uprightness, cleanness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | repulsion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hatred, disgust |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, aversion, denial, detestation, distaste, hate, horror, loathing, malice, rebuff, refusal, repugnance, resentment, revolt, revulsion, snub, disrelish, repugnancy |
| Antonyms: | attraction, liking, 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: | anathema |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something hated |
| Synonyms: | abomination, bane, bugbear, detestation, enemy, hate, pariah |
| Antonyms: | love |
| Main Entry: | enormity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | horribleness |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrocity, crime, depravity, disgrace, evil, evilness, horror, monstrosity, outrage, turpitude, vice, villainy, wickedness, atrociousness, flagrancy, grossness, heinousness, monstrousness, nefariousness, outrageousness, rankness, viciousness, vileness |
| Antonyms: | goodness |
| Main Entry: | atrocity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelness, offensiveness; widely condemned action |
| Synonyms: | abomination, barbarity, brutality, crime, enormity, evil, horror, infamy, inhumanity, iniquity, monstrosity, offense, outrage, wrong, ruthlessness, savagery, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | kindness, pleasantness |
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