Word Meanings - DETEST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

calling a deity to witness, to execrate, detest; de + testari to be a 1. To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. The heresy of Nestorius . . . was detested in the Eastern churches. Fuller. God hath detested them with his own mouth. Bale. 2.

Additional info about word: DETEST

calling a deity to witness, to execrate, detest; de + testari to be a 1. To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. The heresy of Nestorius . . . was detested in the Eastern churches. Fuller. God hath detested them with his own mouth. Bale. 2. To hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil. Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. Pope. Syn. -- To abhor; abominate; execrate. See Hate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DETEST)

• Abhor
• Hate
• abominate
• detest
• loathe
• despise
• dislike
• eschew
• nauseate
• Abominate
• execrate
• hate

Related words: (words related to DETEST)

• DETESTABLY
  In a detestable manner.
• ESCHEW
  1. To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of. They must not only eschew evil, but do good. Bp. Beveridge. 2. To escape from; to avoid. He who obeys, destruction shall eschew. Sandys.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• ABHORRENCY
  Abhorrence. Locke.
• ESCHEWER
  One who eschews.
• EXECRATE
  To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate. "They . . . execrate their lct." Cowper.
• ABHORRENT
  1. Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover. 2.
• ESCHEWMENT
  The act of eschewing.
• ABOMINATE
  To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. Syn. -- To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate.
• DETESTABLE
  Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11. Syn. -- Abominable;
• ABHORRIBLE
  Detestable.
• DESPISEMENT
  A despising. Holland.
• DISLIKENESS
  Unlikeness. Locke.
• DETESTABLENESS
  The quality or state of being detestable.
• DETESTATE
  To detest. Udall.
• DESPISE
  To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who
• DETESTABILITY
  Capacity of being odious. Carlyle.
• DESPISER
  One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.
• LOATHER
  One who loathes.
• DISLIKELIHOOD
  The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
• SELF-ABHORRENCE
  Abhorrence of one's self.