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Synonyms for loathe
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, shunAntonyms:
admire, approve, covet, crave, desire, enjoy, esteem, esteem, like, love, relish
Princeton's WordNet
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 Synonymes
loatheverb
Synonyms:
abhor, detest, hate, nauseate, abominate, feel disgust at, shrink from, recoil from
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3527 | hate | |
#17397 | dislike | |
#31276 | despise | |
#31524 | shun | |
#34727 | scorn | |
#49384 | loathe | |
#69016 | detest | |
#73795 | abhor |
How to use loathe in a sentence?
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.
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
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.
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.
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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- ošklivit, hnusitCzech
- afskyDanish
- verabscheuenGerman
- abomeniEsperanto
- detestarSpanish
- jälestama, vihkamaEstonian
- inhotaFinnish
- exécrerFrench
- fuathaichScottish Gaelic
- घृणा करनाHindi
- abominare, odiare, detestare, aborrireItalian
- 嫌うJapanese
- whakaetietiMāori
- verafschuwenDutch
- nienawidzićPolish
- detestarPortuguese
- любить, ненавидеть, выноситьRussian
- అసహ్యించుకొనుTelugu
- không ưaVietnamese
- 厭惡Chinese
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