odious

The word “odious” has 3 syllables: o-di-ous

It's pronounced as /ˈoʊ.di.əs/


What is synonym and antonym for odious?

In the thesaurus, “odious” has 89 synonyms and 49 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for odious along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for odious

Antonyms for odious

  • acceptable
  • agreeable
  • alluring
  • appealing
  • attractive
  • blessed
  • blest
  • congenial
  • darling
  • delectable
  • delicious
  • delightful
  • delightsome
  • desirable
  • dreamy
  • dulcet
  • enjoyable
  • felicitous
  • good
  • gratifying
  • great
  • healthful
  • healthy
  • heavenly
  • innocuous
  • inoffensive
  • inviting
  • kind
  • likable
  • likeable
  • lovable
  • loveable
  • luscious
  • nice
  • palatable
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • restorative
  • salubrious
  • salutary
  • satisfying
  • savory
  • savoury
  • sweet
  • unexceptionable
  • unobjectionable
  • welcome
  • wholesome

Meanings of odious

  • adjective
    1. Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.

Example Sentences

  • The politician's odious remarks during the debate alienated many voters.
  • She found the odious smell coming from the dumpster unbearable.
  • His odious behavior at the party made everyone uncomfortable and eager to leave.
  • The novel featured an odious villain whose actions shocked the readers.
  • It was an odious task to clean up after the messy party, but someone had to do it.

On this page you'll find 138 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to odious, such as: abhorrent, abominable, acceptable, agreeable, alluring, appalling, appealing.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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immenseness

  • ampleness
  • awesomeness
  • bigness
  • boundlessness
  • bulk
  • capaciousness
  • commodiousness
  • enormity
  • enormousness
  • excessiveness
  • extensiveness
  • extravagance
  • extremeness
  • gaudiness
  • giantism
  • gigantism
  • grandiosity
  • grandness
  • greatness
  • hugeness
  • immensity
  • immoderacy
  • largeness
  • limitlessness
  • magnitude
  • massiveness
  • prodigiousness
  • sizableness
  • size
  • spaciousness
  • stupendousness
  • tremendousness
  • vastitude
  • vastness
  • voluminousness
  • weightiness

nauseating

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • affronting
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • barbarous
  • brackish
  • contemptible
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • disagreeable
  • disgusting
  • dislikable
  • dislikeable
  • displeasing
  • disquieting
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dreadful
  • evil
  • exceptionable
  • execrable
  • foul
  • frightful
  • fulsome
  • ghastly
  • grewsome
  • grim
  • grisly
  • gross
  • grossing out
  • gruesome
  • hard
  • hateful
  • heinous
  • hideous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • horrific
  • horrifying
  • insulting
  • loathsome
  • lousy
  • lurid
  • macabre
  • miserable
  • monstrous
  • nasty
  • nauseous
  • nightmarish
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • off-putting
  • offending
  • offensive
  • outraging
  • putting off
  • rancid
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • repelling
  • repugnant
  • repulsing
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • scandalous
  • shocking
  • sick
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • terrible
  • turning off
  • ugly
  • unchristian
  • uncivilized
  • undesirable
  • ungodly
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unpleasant
  • unsavory
  • unspeakable
  • unwanted
  • unwelcome
  • unwholesome
  • upsetting
  • vile

wack

  • abominable
  • abysmal
  • anima
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bad
  • bastard
  • below par
  • brutal
  • bum
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • card
  • character
  • cheesy
  • clown
  • coarse
  • common
  • counterfeit
  • crank
  • crappy
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • customer
  • cut-rate
  • damnable
  • defective
  • deficient
  • deplorable
  • detestable
  • disastrous
  • dissatisfactory
  • dreadful
  • eccentric
  • ego
  • egregious
  • execrable
  • fake
  • faulty
  • figure
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • freak
  • from hunger
  • gnarly
  • gross
  • guise
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • id
  • identity
  • ill
  • image
  • inadequate
  • inferior
  • insufficient
  • junky
  • lacking
  • lame
  • lesser
  • lousy
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • mind
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • niggardly
  • nut
  • nut case
  • oddball
  • oddity
  • odious
  • off
  • original
  • paltry
  • pathetic
  • person
  • personage
  • personality
  • phoney
  • phony
  • poor
  • punk
  • reprehensible
  • role
  • rotten
  • rubbishy
  • scanty
  • scurrilous
  • second-rate
  • self
  • shabby
  • sham
  • shoddy
  • short
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • soul
  • sour
  • spare
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • terrible
  • trashy
  • unacceptable
  • under par
  • unsatisfactory
  • unspeakable
  • useless
  • valueless
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wanting
  • weirdo
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

ill

  • Cimmerian
  • a wreck
  • abominable
  • abomination
  • abuse
  • abusively
  • abysmal
  • accident
  • achy
  • acrimonious
  • adverse
  • adversity
  • affection
  • afflicted
  • affliction
  • aggressively
  • ail
  • ailing
  • ailment
  • airsick
  • anathema
  • antagonistic
  • assertively
  • atrocious
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • attack
  • awful
  • bad
  • badness
  • baleful
  • balefulness
  • baneful
  • bastard
  • below par
  • black
  • bleak
  • blow
  • body blow
  • bout
  • brutal
  • brutally
  • brutishly
  • bug
  • bum
  • bummed
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • by no means
  • calamity
  • callously
  • cancer
  • canker
  • cantankerous
  • carsick
  • casualty
  • cataclysm
  • catastrophe
  • challenged
  • cheerless
  • cheesy
  • chill
  • circumstance
  • cloudy
  • coarse
  • cold
  • cold-bloodedly
  • comfortless
  • common
  • complaint
  • complication
  • condition
  • contagion
  • contagious
  • contagious disease
  • contagium
  • corruption
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • cross
  • cruddy
  • cruelty
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • curse
  • cut-rate
  • damage
  • damaging
  • damnable
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • darkening
  • darkness
  • deadly
  • debauchery
  • debilitated
  • debility
  • decay
  • decidedly
  • decrepit
  • decrepitude
  • defeat
  • defective
  • deficient
  • degeneracy
  • deleterious
  • deplorable
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • destiny
  • destruction
  • destructive
  • determinedly
  • detestable
  • detrimental
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • diabolism
  • dim
  • dire
  • direful
  • disabled
  • disappointment
  • disaster
  • disastrous
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • disease
  • diseased
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • disorder
  • disordered
  • disrespectful
  • dissatisfactory
  • distemper
  • distemperature
  • distress
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  • dizzy
  • doom
  • doomy
  • down
  • down with
  • dreadful
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dreich
  • egregious
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • enormity
  • epidemic
  • evil
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  • evilness
  • execrable
  • failure
  • fake
  • fatal
  • fate
  • faulty
  • feeble
  • feebleness
  • feeling awful
  • feeling rotten
  • feeling terrible
  • fever
  • feverish
  • fiendishness
  • firmly
  • fit
  • fizzle
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • foreboding
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • fragile
  • frail
  • frailness
  • from hunger
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gnarly
  • godforsaken
  • got the bug
  • gray
  • green
  • grey
  • grimly
  • gross
  • gruffly
  • halt
  • hard
  • hard-heartedly
  • hardly
  • hardship
  • harm
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • harshly
  • hateful
  • hazardous
  • heartlessly
  • heinousness
  • hopeless
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • hostile
  • hurt
  • hurtful
  • hypochondriac
  • hypochondriacal
  • ill-boding
  • ill-fated
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-starred
  • illness
  • immorality
  • imperiling
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  • impertinent
  • inadequate
  • inauspicious
  • incapacitated
  • indecency
  • indisposed
  • indisposition
  • infection
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inferior
  • infirm
  • infirmity
  • inhumanely
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  • inimical
  • iniquitous
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  • iniquity
  • injurious
  • injury
  • insensately
  • insensitively
  • insidious
  • insufficient
  • insult
  • invalid
  • jeopardizing
  • junky
  • killer
  • knock
  • lacking
  • laid low
  • lame
  • lameness
  • lesser
  • letdown
  • lethal
  • light-headed
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • lot
  • lousy
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • lugubrious
  • malady
  • malaise
  • malefaction
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • matter
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • menacing
  • mercilessly
  • minatory
  • misadventure
  • mischance
  • mischief
  • mischievous
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • misery
  • misfortune
  • mishap
  • morbid
  • morose
  • murky
  • nasty
  • nauseated
  • nauseous
  • near
  • never
  • niggardly
  • no
  • no way
  • nocent
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • none
  • nonsuccess
  • nothing
  • nothing doing
  • noway
  • nowhere
  • nowise
  • noxious
  • obdurately
  • odious
  • off
  • ominous
  • on no account
  • on sick list
  • oppressively
  • out of sorts
  • pain
  • paltry
  • parlous
  • pathetic
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • perversion
  • pervertedness
  • pest
  • pestiferous
  • pestilence
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pip
  • pitilessly
  • plague
  • plutonian
  • poisonous
  • poor
  • poorly
  • portentous
  • portion
  • prejudicial
  • punk
  • qualmish
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • queer
  • queerish
  • reprehensible
  • resolutely
  • risky
  • rot
  • rotten
  • roughly
  • rubbishy
  • ruinous
  • run down
  • run-down
  • running a temperature
  • ruthlessly
  • satanism
  • saturnine
  • savagely
  • scanty
  • scarcely
  • scurrility
  • scurrilous
  • scurrilousness
  • seasick
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • sepulchral
  • setback
  • severely
  • shabby
  • shaky
  • sham
  • shoddy
  • short
  • sick
  • sick as a dog
  • sickened
  • sickish
  • sickliness
  • sickly
  • sickness
  • sin
  • sinfulness
  • sinister
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrow
  • sour
  • spare
  • spell
  • squalor
  • squeamish
  • star-crossed
  • sternly
  • stiffly
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • strongly
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • suffering
  • sullen
  • sunless
  • surly
  • symptomatic
  • syndrome
  • taboo
  • tabu
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • terrible
  • threatening
  • toughly
  • tragedy
  • trashy
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • troubled
  • tyrannically
  • unacceptable
  • uncharitably
  • under par
  • under the weather
  • unfavorable
  • unfeelingly
  • unfortunate
  • unfriendly
  • ungracious
  • unhappiness
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthiness
  • unhealthy
  • unkind
  • unlucky
  • unmercifully
  • unpleasantness
  • unpromising
  • unpropitious
  • unsafe
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsettled
  • unsound
  • unsoundness
  • unsparingly
  • unspeakable
  • unwell
  • unwellness
  • unwholesome
  • upset
  • useless
  • valueless
  • venomous
  • viciously
  • vile
  • vileness
  • villainous
  • villainy
  • wack
  • wanting
  • weak
  • weakly
  • weakness
  • wicked
  • wickedness
  • woe
  • woozy
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

paltry

  • Mickey Mouse
  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abysmal
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bad
  • base
  • bastard
  • beggarly
  • below par
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • brutal
  • bum
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • censurable
  • cheap
  • cheesy
  • chicken
  • coarse
  • common
  • condemnable
  • contemptible
  • corrupt
  • counterfeit
  • cowardly
  • crappy
  • craven
  • cruddy
  • cruel
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • currish
  • cut-rate
  • damnable
  • dastardly
  • de minimis
  • debased
  • debauched
  • defective
  • deficient
  • degenerate
  • deplorable
  • depraved
  • derisory
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • dirty
  • disastrous
  • discreditable
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • dishonorable
  • disreputable
  • dissatisfactory
  • dissolute
  • dreadful
  • egregious
  • evil
  • execrable
  • fake
  • faulty
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • footling
  • foul
  • from hunger
  • gnarly
  • gross
  • grubby
  • hairsplitting
  • hateful
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • ignoble
  • ignominious
  • ill
  • immoral
  • imperceptible
  • inadequate
  • inappreciable
  • inconsequential
  • inconsiderable
  • ineffectual
  • inferior
  • iniquitous
  • insignificant
  • insufficient
  • junky
  • lacking
  • lame
  • lesser
  • limited
  • little
  • loathsome
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-down
  • low-grade
  • low-minded
  • low-rent
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • measly
  • mediocre
  • minor
  • minute
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • narrow
  • nasty
  • negligible
  • niggardly
  • niggling
  • nitpicking
  • no-account
  • nominal
  • odious
  • off
  • one-horse
  • pathetic
  • peanut
  • perverted
  • pettifogging
  • petty
  • phoney
  • phony
  • picayune
  • piddling
  • piddly
  • piffling
  • pimping
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • poor
  • punk
  • puny
  • quibbling
  • ratty
  • reprehensible
  • reproachable
  • reptilian
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • rotten
  • rubbishy
  • scabby
  • scanty
  • scummy
  • scurrilous
  • scurvy
  • second-rate
  • set
  • shabby
  • sham
  • shameful
  • shoddy
  • short
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • slight
  • small
  • small-fry
  • sneaking
  • snide
  • sordid
  • sorry
  • sour
  • spare
  • squalid
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • terrible
  • tiny
  • trashy
  • trifling
  • trivial
  • two-bit
  • unacceptable
  • unconsequential
  • under par
  • unethical
  • unimportant
  • unprincipled
  • unsatisfactory
  • unscrupulous
  • unspeakable
  • unworthy
  • useless
  • valueless
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • wack
  • wanting
  • wicked
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

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