KJV Dictionary Definition: odious

odious

O'DIOUS, a. L. odiosus, from odi, I hated, Eng. hate.

1. Hateful; deserving hatred. It expresses something less than detestable and abominable; as an odious name; odious vice.

All wickedness is odious.

2. Offensive to the senses; disgusting; as an odious sight; an odious smell.

3. Causing hate; invidious; as, to utter odious truth.

4. Exposed to hatred.

He rendered himself odious to the parliament.

odiously

O'DIOUSLY, adv.

1. Hatefully; in a manner to deserve or excite hatred.

2. Invidiously; so as to cause hate.

odiousness

O'DIOUSNESS, n.

1. Hatefulness; the quality that deserves or may excite hatred; as the odiousness of sin.

2. The state of being hated. Not usual.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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