1. Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice. "All wickedness will be most odious." Sprat. He rendered himself odious to the Parliament. Clarendon.
2. Causing or provoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell. Milton. The odious side of that polity. Macaulay.
Syn.
— Hateful; detestable; abominable; disgusting; loathsome;
invidious; repulsive; forbidding; unpopular.
— O"di*ous`ly. adv.
— O"di*ous*ness, n.
ODIST
Od"ist, n.
Defn: A writer of an ode or odes.
ODIUM
O"di*um, n. Etym: [L., fr. odi I hate. Gr. Annoy, Noisome.]
1. Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness. She threw the odium of the fact on me. Dryden. Odium theologicum ( Etym: [L.], the enmity peculiar to contending theologians.
Syn. — Hatred; abhorrence; detestation; antipathy. — Odium, Hatred. We exercise hatred; we endure odium. The former has an active sense, the latter a passive one. We speak of having a hatred for a man, but not of having an odium toward him. A tyrant incurs odium. The odium of an offense may sometimes fall unjustly upon one who is innocent. I wish I had a cause to seek him there, To oppose his hatred fully. Shak. You have…dexterously thrown some of the odium of your polity upon that middle class which you despise. Beaconsfield.
ODIZE
Od"ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Odized p. pr. & vb. n. Odizing.]