Definizione monolingua

abhorrent

abhorrent

1. third-person plural present indicative of abhorrer
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of abhorrer

abhorrent (comparative more abhorrent, superlative most abhorrent)

1. Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.
   • 1803, Edmund Burke, ^[1]:

     The persons most abhorrent from blood, and treason, and arbitrary confiscation, might remain silent spectators of this civil war between the vices.

   • 1822, Richard Clover, Leonidas^[2]:

     The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn, abhorrent; in a spotless heart I look for pleasure.

2. Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to.
   • 1827, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire^[3]:

     This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ...

   • 1990, James Hankins, Plato in the Italian Renaissance^[4]:

     In establishing his ideal state he expressed some opinions utterly abhorrent to our customs and ways of living. He believed, for instance, that all wives should be held in common ... with the result that no one could tell his own children from those of a perfect stranger.

3. Detestable
   • 1833, Isaac Taylor, Fanaticism^[5]:

     If Pride, abhorrent as it is, and if Ambition, ...

   • 1936, Paul E. More, On Being Human^[6]:

     That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.

Definizione dizionario abhorrent

	ripugnante
	detesting; showing abhorrence

orrendo

orribile

	aberrante
	Stimulating disgust or detestation.

	contrario
	contrary or repugnant

	contro
	contrary or repugnant

	disgustoso
	detesting; showing abhorrence

	incompatibile
	contrary or repugnant

	odioso
	detesting; showing abhorrence

abominevole

detestabile

Altri significati:

Contrary or repugnant; discordant; inconsistent; -- followed by to.

Detestable

Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.