Anathema Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-năthə-mə
A denunciation invoking a wish or threat of evil or injury
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. curse
  2. execration
  3. imprecation
  4. malediction
  5. damnation
  6. abhorrence
  7. bane
  8. censure
  9. condemnation
  10. bete noire
  11. denunciation
  12. hate
  13. malison
  14. oath
  15. decrial
  16. pariah
  17. phobia
  18. taboo
  19. fustigation
Antonyms:
  1. love
An object of extreme dislike
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. abhorrence
  2. abomination
  3. aversion
  4. bête noire
  5. bugbear
  6. detestation
  7. execration
  8. hate
  9. horror

Words Related to Anathema

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Anathema Sentence Examples

  • The amount of money spent at general elections seems a complete anathema to most people.

  • Secular state education and the "conscience clause" were anathema to him.

  • In reality, the condition of perfection is anathema to a dynamic civilization since it means stasis, and therefore ruin and decay.

  • But any kind of church vestment had become anathema to him.

  • His doing so, while it brought upon him the anathema of the patriarch of Constantinople, failed to secure the favour of Anastasius, who in 511 found in the riots which were occurring between the rival parties in the streets of Antioch a pretext for deposing Flavian, and banishing him to Petra, where he died in 518.

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