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Webster 1913 Edition

Odious

O′di-ous

,
Adj.
[L.
odiosus
, from
odium
hatred: cf. F.
odieux
. See
Odium
.]
1.
Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred;
as, an
odious
name, system, vice
.
“All wickedness will be most odious.”
Sprat.
He rendered himself
odious
to the Parliament.
Clarendon.
2.
Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive;
as, an
odious
sight; an
odious
smell.
Milton.
The
odious
side of that polity.
Macaulay.
Syn. – Hateful; detestable; abominable; disgusting; loathsome; invidious; repulsive; forbidding; unpopular.
–
O′di-ousˊly
.
adv.
–
O′di-ous-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Odious

O'DIOUS

,
Adj.
[L. odiosus, from odi, I hated, Eng. hate.]
1.
Hateful; deserving hatred. It expresses something less than detestable and abominable; as an odious name; odious vice.
All wickedness is odious.
2.
Offensive to the senses; disgusting; as an odious sight; an odious smell.
3.
Causing hate; invidious; as, to utter odious truth.
4.
Exposed to hatred.
He rendered himself odious to the parliament.

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