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Synonyms for loathe
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Wiktionary2.0 / 1 vote

  1. loatheverb

    Synonyms:
    detest, hate

  2. loatheverb

    To hate, detest, revile.

    Synonyms:
    hate, detest

English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 2 votes

  1. loathe

    Abhor is stronger than despise, implying a shuddering recoil, especially a moral recoil. "How many shun evil as inconvenient who do not abhor it as hateful." Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xxvi, 297. [Murray's "New English Dictionary"] Detest expresses indignation, with something of contempt. Loathe implies disgust, physical or moral. We abhor a traitor, despise a coward, detest a liar. We dislike an uncivil person. We abhor cruelty, hate tyranny. We loathe a reptile or a flatterer. We abhor Milton's heroic Satan, but we can not despise him.

    Synonyms:
    abhor, abominate, despise, detest, dislike, hate, nauseate, scorn, shun

    Antonyms:
    admire, approve, covet, crave, desire, enjoy, esteem, esteem, like, love, relish

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. abhor, loathe, abominate, execrateverb

    find repugnant

    "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats"

    Synonyms:
    accurse, abominate, anathematise, anathematize, anathemize, abhor, execrate, comminate, anathemise

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. loatheverb

    Synonyms:
    abhor, detest, hate, nauseate, abominate, feel disgust at, shrink from, recoil from

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. loatheverb

    Synonyms:
    abhor, hate, detest, abominate, despise, execrate, recoil from

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "loathe":

    hate, abhor

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How to use loathe in a sentence?

  1. Arthur Alan Wolk:

    The only way to really improve it…is to have competition, the only other thing that works, I’m loathe to say, is for the regulatory environment to tighten up the service regulations that apply to the airlines.

  2. August Strindberg:

    I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

  3. Cleopatra Cowley:

    I loathe Michaeil Ward and his very existence because every breath Michaeil Ward gets to take is one breath more than my 15-year-old daughter was allowed to breathe, hadiya Pendleton is serving a death sentence handed down by Michaeil Ward and the family is doing life as a result of her death.

  4. Edgar Allan Poe:

    Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.

  5. James Thurber:

    I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.


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