loathe

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to hate someone or something
hateI hate camping.
detestI detest any kind of cruelty.
loathe"Do you like cabbage?" "No, I loathe it."
despiseShe despised him for the way he treated her.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not liking
abide
abominate
anti-American
anti-British
anti-Catholic
civil
cup
cut
despise
detest
disdain
disdainful
disdainfully
go off
non-fan
not be someone's cup of teaidiom
not go much on somethingidiom
not have a civil word to say about someoneidiom
not know what someone sees in someone/somethingidiom
tire

abhor | American Dictionary

abhor
verb[ T ]
us/æbˈhɔr, əb-/-rr-
to hate something or someone:
His opponent abhors the death penalty.

abhorrence

noun[ U ]us/æbˈhɔr·əns, əb-, -ˈhɑr-/
She has an abhorrence of violence.

abhorrent

adjectiveus/æbˈhɔr·ənt, -ˈhɑr-/
His attitude of superiority is abhorrent.

Examples of abhor

abhor
Indeed, they argue that this preoccupation leads us, as gerontologists, to perpetuate the very conditions that we abhor.
Local magistrates, for their part, abhorred the litigious society.
Both writers' works contain expositions of the theory of justification by faith alone, a doctrine the king abhorred.
It seems to be a topic most abhor, yet many obsess over.
They abhor the perfidious means by which they have been deprived of the humanist decalogue.
But in shunning any attempt to give it correspondence to contemporary economic circumstances he left a vacuum which many historians have naturally abhorred.
It is a moral tale with a moral lesson that young female readers, one might imagine, would abhor.
She abhorred games of all kinds, suggesting that they appeal to the indolent without the imagination to invent their own learning and growing activities.
In domestic politics, they abhor the exercise of real leadership because it disturbs the comfortable web of vested interests.
Ordinarily, high churchmen abhorred the idea of baptism by total immersion.
Malay politics seems to abhor the vacuum of authoritarian leadership.
It was abhorred because it was perceived, wrongly or rightly, as an unjust tax levied upon the politically unrepresented producers of colonial wealth.
He therefore abhors the word "axiom," which in its usual usage evokes the idea of definitive truth.
He welcomes the elementary, but abhors the banal.
The depersonalizaing effects of the process of dying can be such that people simply abhor to exist in that way.
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