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Synonyms
abominable, appalling, awful, disgusting, distasteful, dreadful, evil, foul, fulsome, gross, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, rancid, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, shocking, sickening, ugly
Antonyms
innocuous, inoffensive
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1599, in the meaning defined at sense 3b
borrowed from Latin abhorrent-, abhorrens, present participle of abhorrēre "to abhor"
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