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单词 odious
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odiousadj.

Brit. /ˈəʊdɪəs/, U.S. /ˈoʊdiəs/
Forms: Middle English hodyus, Middle English odieux, Middle English odiose, Middle English odiouȝs, Middle English odius, Middle English odyouse, Middle English odyows, Middle English odyus, Middle English otewyse, Middle English–1500s odyous, Middle English–1600s odiouse, Middle English– odious; also Irish English 1900s– odjous, 1900s– ojus.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French odious, odieus; Latin odiōsus.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman odious, odiose (13th cent.) and Middle French odieus (French odieux ; 1376 in avoir odieus to feel hatred for (someone); 1549 in sense ‘exciting hatred’), and its etymon classical Latin odiōsus exciting hatred, disagreeable, offensive < odium odium n. + -ōsus -ous suffix.A pronunciation with /-dʒ-/ is recorded as a variant in some early 19th-cent. sources including Walker (1806); compare also the following, in reference to the actor John Kemble (1757–1823):1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. vii. 292 One of the things on which I was always harping, was Kemble's vicious pronunciation...‘Odious’..became ojus.
1. Regarded with hatred; hated. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > [adjective] > that is hated
yhated1297
behatec1374
odiousa1382
hateda1400
loatheda1420
abominate1531
abhorred1533
detested1552
odious1560
abominated1620
nauseated1652
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. xxi. 15 Ȝif a man haue two wyuys, oon louyd & anoþer odyous [L. odiosam].
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 362 Odyows, or be-hatyd, Odiosus.
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 5518 (MED) Ihesus..in þe cyte of Ierusalem..was odyous.
2. Deserving of hatred; exciting hatred or repugnance; hateful; disagreeable; offensive; repulsive. Also with to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adjective]
loatha700
eileOE
andsetec1000
wlatfulc1230
aloathedc1275
wlatsomea1300
unhonest13..
wlata1325
hideousc1330
abominable1340
hatefula1382
hatesomea1382
abominablec1384
odiousa1387
fulsomec1390
accursedc1400
hatousc1400
rankc1400
hateablec1425
odiblec1425
ugsomec1425
wretchedc1430
loathsomec1440
loathfula1450
noisomea1450
abhominal1477
detestable1477
loathy1481
loathing?a1513
oppugnanta1513
irksome1513
hateworthy1548
abhorful1565
ugged1570
detestine1575
ulcerous1577
opposite1578
scandalous1592
offensive1594
obscene1597
ulcered1602
dirtya1616
abhorrent1628
toady1628
envious1630
repugnant1633
nauseating1645
nauseous1646
obnoxious1646
detestful1654
reluctant1663
horrid1666
abnoxious1682
devilish1692
invidious1710
repellent1776
repellant1780
sickening1789
toadish1822
carrion1826
ugging1839
cussed1853
repugnant1879
jerky1944
vomitous1952
barfy1957
the mind > emotion > hatred > [adjective] > that is hated
yhated1297
behatec1374
odiousa1382
hateda1400
loatheda1420
abominate1531
abhorred1533
detested1552
odious1560
abominated1620
nauseated1652
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 147 He..lefte tweie sones on lyve..and wiste þat þey were odious [L. odiosus] to the lewes.
c1400 J. Wyclif On the Seven Deadly Sins (Bodl. 647) in Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 139 (MED) Þo passioun of Crist is myche for to preyse, bot sleeyng of his tormentoures is odiouse to God.
c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 54 (MED) Decius was..to cristen men an odious tyraunt.
c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 10 (MED) Þe office of estimacioun..is forto perceiue..þingis..to kynde freendeful or odiose.
a1500 (c1350) Octovian (Cambr.) (1986) l. 1071 Þe sowdon..bote hys lyppys and schoke hys berde, That hodyus hyt was to see.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxxvj That their name was in times past odiose, and hated of him.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. v. 158/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I A number of their odious comparisons and ambitious titles are now decaied.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 187 You told a lie, an odious damned lie. View more context for this quotation
a1634 J. Forbes Certaine Rec. in Apol. Narration Kirk of Scotl. (1846) 471 That is declaired to be odious quhilk is induced against the common law.
1688 R. Blackbourn Clitie i. 55 He was possess'd with a mortal Aversion for Mariana, and all her Treachery seem'd odious to him.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 338 That wretch'd Place [sc.Newgate]..nothing was more odious to me than the Company that was there.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 8 Dec. 385 I..am asked twenty Times a Day when I am to leave those odious Lodgings.
1784 R. B. Sheridan Let. 23 Oct. (1966) I. 162 The Window Tax is certainly becoming every Day more odious.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. xiii. 138 Pray do not talk of that odious man. View more context for this quotation
1866 Duke of Argyll Reign of Law vii. 358 The most odious conceptions of Human Society which the world has ever seen.
1896 A. R. White Youth's Educator xxvii. 325 The taint of smoking can be overcome by chewing common parsley, and the odious taint of onions is also overcome by parsley, vinegar or burnt coffee.
1935 G. Santayana Last Puritan iii. i. 296 Nothing seemed to him more odious in this world than the people bent on reforming it.
1979 J. Heller Good as Gold viii. 350 Kissinger would not be recalled in history as a Bismarck..but as an odious shlump who made war gladly.
2000 Esquire Aug. 131/1 An odious gathering of dilettante chancers powering their way across Europe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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