Abhor

Quick meaning: Abhor is a verb meaning (transitive) To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.

Meaning

(transitive) To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete, impersonal) To fill with horror or disgust.
2. (transitive) To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
3. (transitive, canon law, obsolete) To protest against; to reject solemnly.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) Differ entirely from.

Example Sentences

I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams.

Let loue bee without dissimulation: abhorre that which is euill, cleaue to that which is good.

Many vegetarians abhor the thought of killing animals to feed themselves and also the methods by which animals are slaughtered.

I vtterly abhorre; yea, from my Soule Refuse you for my Iudge, whom yet once more I hold my most malicious Foe, and thinke not At all a Friend to truth.

Word Forms

• abhors
• abhorring
• abhorred
• abhorrest
• abhorredst
• abhorreth

Synonyms for abhor

Depending on context, synonyms include hate, detest, disdain, loathe, execrate, abominate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include loathe, execrate, abominate, detest, hate, dislike.

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