abhorrent
adjective/əbˈhɒrənt/
/əbˈhɔːrənt/
(formal)- abhorrent (to somebody) causing a strong feeling of hate, especially for moral reasons synonym repugnant
- Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society.
Extra Examples- I find the idea totally abhorrent.
- Such a savage punishment is abhorrent to a civilized society.
- To the local people, this was an abhorrent idea.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- find something
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- absolutely
- totally
- utterly
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- to
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin abhorrent- ‘shuddering away from in horror’, from the verb abhorrere, from ab- ‘away from’ + horrere ‘to shudder’.Definitions on the go
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