| 单词 | detest |
| 释义 | detest (once / 492 pages) v If you detest something, you dislike it intensely. The word can apply to things and also to people. You might detest your ex-boyfriend and you might also detest rainy Mondays and broccoli. Detest comes from the Middle French word détester, meaning "to curse, to call God to witness and abhor." Though the words detest and hate are interchangeable, the word hate is much more common, which has caused it to lose some of its hateful impact. Detest is used more sparingly, reserved for cases where no other word will do, where your feelings of dislike are so powerful that they need just the right word to sum them up. WORD FAMILYdetest: detestable, detestation, detested, detesting, detests+/detestable: detestablest, detestably/detestation: detestations/detested: detestedly USAGE EXAMPLESHe detests the president-elect’s belligerence, his immaturity, his kooky cabinet picks, his arrogant rejection of intelligence briefings. Salon(Dec 25, 2016) If Richard Sherman was on any other team, people here would detest him. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) Nabokov was exasperated by Wilson’s fondness for Lenin and Russia, which Nabokov detested. Washington Post(Nov 29, 2016) v dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards She detests politicians Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper hate love have a great affection or liking for abhor, abominate, execrate, loathe find repugnant contemn, despise, disdain, scornlook down on with disdain look down onregard with contempt dislike have or feel a dislike or distaste for |
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