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| 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, loathsome, low, monstrous, nauseous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, repulsive, revolting, vile, wretched, horrific |
| Antonyms: | nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | abhorrent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disgusting |
| Synonyms: | despicable, detestable, execrable, loathsome, offensive, repulsive, revolting |
| Main Entry: | damnable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | atrocious, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, accursed, blessed, culpable, cursed, darn, depraved, despicable, detestable, execrable, hateful, odious, offensive, outrageous, wicked, blamed, dang, dratted |
| Antonyms: | admirable, blessed, exalted, favorable, favored, good, laudatory, praiseworthy, cherished, loveable |
| Main Entry: | damned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful, unwelcome |
| Synonyms: | accursed, bad, blessed*, bloody*, blooming*, confounded, cursed, damnable, darn*, darned*, despicable, detestable, done for*, doomed, execrable, infamous, infernal*, loathsome, lost, lousy, reprobate, revolting, unhappy, all-fired, anathematized, blankety-blank, blasted, condemned, cussed, dang, doggone*, dratted, gone to blazes, voodooed |
| Antonyms: | blessed, favored, nice, praiseworthy, welcome, cherished, likeable, loveable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deplorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, shameful |
| Synonyms: | awful, blameworthy, bummer*, calamitous, dire, dirty, disastrous, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, distressing, dolorous, downer*, dreadful, execrable, faulty, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, intolerable, lamentable, lousy, melancholy, miserable, mournful, opprobrious, overwhelming, poor, regrettable, reprehensible, rotten, sad, scandalous, sickening, stinking, terrible, tragic, unbearable, unsatisfactory, woeful, wretched, afflictive, godawful, horrifying, pitiable |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, delightful, excellent, good, happy, shameless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | detestable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loathsome, abominable |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, accursed, atrocious, awful, despicable, disgusting, execrable, gross*, hateful, heinous, lousy, maggot, monstrous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shocking, sorry, vile, abhorred, godawful, grody, hateable, horrid, low-down |
| Antonyms: | admirable, adorable, respectable, respected, adored, cherished, likeable, loveable, prized |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | devilish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wicked |
| Synonyms: | accursed, atrocious, bad, cursed, damnable, demonic, detestable, diabolic, diabolical, evil, execrable, fiendish, hellish, infernal, inhuman, iniquitous, nefarious, satanic, serpentine, unhallowed, villainous, Mephistophelian, brutish, cloven-footed, demoniac, hellborn |
| Antonyms: | angelic, godlike, good, moral |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sinful, immoral |
| Synonyms: | angry, atrocious, bad, baneful, base, beastly, calamitous, corrupt, damnable, depraved, destructive, disastrous, execrable, flagitious, foul, harmful, hateful, heinous, hideous, iniquitous, injurious, loathsome, low, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nefarious, obscene, offensive, pernicious, poison, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, spiteful, stinking, ugly, unpleasant, unpropitious, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrathful, wrong, maleficent, no good, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, decent, good, honest, moral, sinless, upright, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | hateful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, obnoxious |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, accursed, awful, bitter, catty*, confounded, cursed, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgusting, evil, execrable, forbidding, foul, gross, heinous, infamous, invidious, loathsome, malevolent, malign, mean, odious, offensive, ornery*, pesky, pestiferous, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, spiteful, undesirable, vicious, vile, blasted, cussed, despiteful, horrid, resentful, shuddersome, uncool |
| Antonyms: | friendly, kind, likable, lovable, nice, pleasant, polite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, monstrous |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, awful, bad, beastly, crying, cursed, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, frightful, grave, gross*, hateful, hideous, infamous, iniquitous, nefarious, odious, offensive, outrageous, raunchy, revolting, scandalous, shocking, stinking*, unspeakable, vicious, villainous, godawful, horrendous |
| Antonyms: | glorious, good, lovely, magnificent, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | horrible/horrendous/horrid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repulsive, very unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gross*, gruesome, heinous, hideous, loathsome, lousy, lurid, mean, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocking, terrible, terrifying, ungodly, unholy, unkind |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, delightful, magnificent, pleasant, pleasing, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infernal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damned; underworld |
| Synonyms: | accursed, confounded, cursed, damnable, demonic, devilish, diabolical, execrable, fiendish, hellish, lower, malevolent, malicious, monstrous, nether, satanic, subterranean, wicked, blamed, blasted, chthonian, cussed, sulphurous |
| Antonyms: | heavenly, otherworldly |
| Main Entry: | loathsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, beastly, creepy, deplorable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, gross, hideous, horrible, invidious, lousy, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, odious, offensive, pesky, pestiferous, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sleazy*, slimy*, vile, bitchy, uncool |
| Antonyms: | liking, lovable, respectful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lousy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad |
| Synonyms: | awful, base, contemptible, despicable, dirty, execrable, faulty, harmful, hateful, horrible, inferior, low, mean, miserable, outrageous, poor, rotten, second-rate*, shoddy, slovenly, terrible, unpopular, unwelcome, vicious, vile, disliked, no good |
| Antonyms: | good, great, magnificent, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nefarious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, sinful |
| Synonyms: | abominable, atrocious, base, corrupt, criminal, degenerate, depraved, detestable, dreadful, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, glaring, gross, heinous, horrible, infamous, infernal, iniquitous, miscreant, monstrous, odious, opprobrious, outrageous, perverse, putrid, rank, rotten, shameful, treacherous, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked |
| Antonyms: | good, honorable, respectable, virtuous, worthy |
| Main Entry: | odious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful, horrible |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, creepy*, detestable, disgusting, execrable, foul, loathsome, mean, obnoxious, offensive, ornery, pain in the neck*, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, unpleasant, vile, hateable, horrid |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, delightful, great, pleasing, likeable, loveable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unspeakable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad; beyond description |
| Synonyms: | abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, beastly, calamitous, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, fearful, frightening, frightful, heinous, horrible, inconceivable, indescribable, ineffable, inhuman, loathsome, monstrous, nameless, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, overwhelming, preternatural, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, unbelievable, unimaginable, beyond words, horrid, incommunicable, indefinable, inexpressible, unutterable |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
| Main Entry: | horrible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, beastly, cruel, detestable, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, execrable, fairy, fearful, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, heinous, hideous, loathsome, lousy, lurid, mean, nasty, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocking, terrible, terrifying, ungodly, unholy, unkind, horrendous, horrid, sickie |
| Notes: | in decreasing degree of horror: horrific, horrendous, horrible, horrid |
| Antonyms: | pleasant |
| Main Entry: | cursed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damned, doomed for bad ending |
| Synonyms: | accursed, blessed, confounded, excommunicate, execrable, fey, ill-fated, infernal, star-crossed, unholy, villainous, bedeviled, blankety-blank, blasted, blighted, cast out, doggone*, foredoomed, hell fire, snakebit, unsanctified, voodooed |
| Antonyms: | blessed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | atrocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive |
| Synonyms: | appalling, awful, bad, beastly, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, execrable, foul, gross*, horrible, icky*, loathsome, noisome, obscene, repulsive, rotten, sickening, terrible, godawful, grody, horrid, horrifying |
| Antonyms: | inoffensive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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