Hateful, disgusting, loathsome, repulsive, hideous, horrible. Rare in 17th and 18th centuries; revived in the 19th cent. as a literary word.

Exciting disgust or loathing. (Now always with emotional implication.) In a moral sense: Hateful, distasteful, odious, repulsive, shocking.

Likely to instil loathing or disgust; worthy of abhorrence; = abhorrible, adj.

= abominable, adj. 1a.

abhorred; abominable, ugly.

transferred. Offensive (to some other sense than sight, or to the mind); objectionable.

That excites hatred, loathing, or disgust; detestable, abominable.