anathema

a·nath·e·ma

A0283200 (ə-năth′ə-mə)n. pl. a·nath·e·mas 1. A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication.2. A vehement denunciation; a curse: "the sound of a witch's anathemas in some unknown tongue" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).3. One that is cursed or damned.4. One that is greatly reviled, loathed, or shunned: "Essentialism—a belief in natural, immutable sex differences—is anathema to postmodernists, for whom sexuality itself, along with gender, is a 'social construct'" (Wendy Kaminer).

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[Late Latin, doomed offering, accursed thing, from Greek, from anatithenai, anathe-, to dedicate : ana-, ana- + tithenai, to put; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]

anathema

(əˈnæθəmə) n, pl -mas1. a detested person or thing: he is anathema to me. 2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a formal ecclesiastical curse of excommunication or a formal denunciation of a doctrine3. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the person or thing so cursed4. a strong curse; imprecation[C16: via Church Latin from Greek: something accursed, dedicated (to evil), from anatithenai to dedicate, from ana- + tithenai to set]

a•nath•e•ma

(əˈnæθ ə mə)

n., pl. -mas. 1. a person or thing detested or loathed: That subject is anathema to them. 2. a person or thing condemned to damnation. 3. an ecclesiastical curse of excommunication. 4. any imprecation of divine punishment. 5. a curse; execration. [1520–30; < Latin < Greek anáthema a thing devoted to evil, earlier anáthēma votive offering] a•nath`e•mat′ic (-ˈmæt ɪk) adj.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	anathema - a detested person; "he is an anathema to me"bete noiredisagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
	2.	anathema - a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunicationcurse, execration, condemnation - an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group

anathema

noun abomination, bête noire, enemy, pariah, bane, bugbear Violence was anathema to them.

anathema

noun1. A denunciation invoking a wish or threat of evil or injury:curse, damnation, execration, imprecation, malediction.Archaic: malison.2. An object of extreme dislike:abhorrence, abomination, aversion, bête noire, bugbear, detestation, execration, hate.Informal: horror.

Translations

анафемапроклятие