- 1可惡的、令人厭惡的（較書面）
Odious means so unpleasant that you want to turn away. It is stronger and more formal than “nasty”. A smell can be odious; a cruel law can be odious; a person who enjoys hurting others can be odious. The word usually judges: you are not only saying you dislike something, you are saying it feels wrong and ugly. You will meet it in books, speeches, and serious articles more than in a chat between friends. Younger speakers are more likely to say disgusting or awful. When someone chooses odious, they are weighing the thing, not just complaining. It has nothing to do with odd, and nothing to do with smell-words like .
組成From Middle English odious, from Old French odieus, from Latin odiōsus, “hateful”, from odium, “hate”.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
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odiousadj/ˈəʊ.di.əs/
- 1
Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
- 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!
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