Detestation synonyms

dē'tĕ-stā'shən

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loathing
Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.
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aversion
The cause or object of such a feeling:
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hatred (related)
Strong dislike or ill will; hate
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abhorrence
One that is disgusting, loathsome, or repellent.
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abomination
Abhorrence; disgust.
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antipathy
Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
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hate
A person or thing hated
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horror
(Informal) Something very bad, ugly, disagreeable, etc.
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repellence
Alternative form of repellency.
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repellency
The ability to repel; the characteristic of repelling.
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repugnance
Extreme dislike or distaste; aversion; antipathy
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repugnancy
Repugnance.
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repulsion
(Physics) The force that causes particles or bodies to repel one another, as from having the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
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anathema
By extension, something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
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bête noire
An object of extreme dislike
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bugbear
A fearsome imaginary creature, especially one evoked to frighten children.
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execration
Something that is cursed or loathed.
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love (related)
A feeling of devotion or adoration toward God or a god.
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odium
Hatred, esp. of a person or thing regarded as loathsome
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baseness (related)
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disloyalty (related)
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ingratitude (related)
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fatuity (related)
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Find another word for detestation. In this page you can discover 24 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for detestation, like: loathing, aversion, revulsion, hatred, abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, hate, horror, repellence and repellency.
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Detestation Sentence Examples

  • The effect of the incident was rather to increase detestation of Giolitti than to damage Crispi.

  • Inwardly "he took a remorse of conscience and detestation of mind."

  • I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation;.

  • It is quite natural that the man who delivered up the city of the Prophet to plunder, and at whose hands so many prominent Moslems fell, should have been an object of detestation ' See Chodzko, Thedtre persan (Paris, 1878).

  • 4 See, among many other passages, Essays, " Of Great Place ": " For corruptions do not only bind thine own hands or thy servant's hands from taking, but bind the hands of suitors also from offering; for integrity used doth the one; but integrity professed, and with a manifest detestation of bribery, doth the other; and avoid not only the fault but the suspicion."

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