odious
/ˈoʊ.di.əs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Scrubbing the toilets in the bar at the end of a Saturday night is an odious task."
- "You told a lie, an odious damned lie: / Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie!"
- "I own no crime, unless it be a crime to've hindered you from perpetrating that which would have made you odious to mankind, at least the fairest half."
- "He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake."
- "He always detested the trade, and it was only necessity, and the offer of his mother’s brother, a London apothecary of low family, into which Pendennis’s father had demeaned himself by marrying, that forced John Pendennis into so odious a calling."
- ""He was a dreadful person, a bully to everyone else, but to me something infinitely worse. He made odious love to me, boasted of his wealth, said that if I married him I would have the finest diamonds in London, and finally, when I would have nothing to do with him, he seized me in his arms one day after dinner—he was hideously strong—and he swore that he would not let me go until I had kissed him.""
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₃ed-, odious, odieus, odiōsus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈoʊ.di.əs/
- British English: /ˈəʊ.di.əs/
Inflected Forms
more odious (comparative)
most odious (superlative)