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abhorred

UK/əbˈhɔːd/US/æbˈhɔɹd/

abhorred is the simple past and past participle of abhor.

Adjective

abhorred (comparative more abhorred, superlative most abhorred)

  1. Strongly disliked: hated, despised.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:abhorred.
  2. (obsolete) Horrified.

Meaning of abhor

Verb

abhor (third-person singular simple present abhors, present participle abhorring, simple past and past participle abhorred)

  1. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
    • I absolutely abhor being stuck in traffic jams.
    Synonyms:
    detest, disdain, loathe, hate
  2. (impersonal, obsolete, transitive) To fill with horror or disgust.
    • But neuer taynt my Loue. I cannot say Whore,
      It do's abhorre me now I speake the word,
      To do the Act, that might the addition earne,
      Not the worlds Masse of vanitie could make me.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
  3. (transitive) To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
  4. (obsolete, transitive, canon law) To protest against; to reject solemnly.
    • 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.1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)...
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from.
    • Also in those daunces were enterlased dities of wanton loue or ribaudry, with frequent remembrance of the moste vile idolis Venus and Bacchus, as it were that the daunce were to their honour and memorie, whiche most of all abhorred from Christes religion, sauerynge the auncient errour of paganysme.1531, Thomas Elyot, “That all daunsinge is nat to be reproued”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y....
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) Differ entirely from.

Antonyms of abhorred

Forms of abhorred

comparativemore abhorred
superlativemost abhorred

Words that rhyme with abhorred

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Questions about abhorred

What does abhorred mean?
Abhorred means strongly disliked: hated, despised.
What is abhorred the simple past and past participle of?
Abhorred is the simple past and past participle of abhor.
What part of speech is abhorred?
Abhorred is an adjective.
How do you pronounce abhorred?
Abhorred is pronounced /əbˈhɔːd/ (UK).

Words near abhorred in the dictionary

  1. abhorment
  2. abhorrable
  3. abhorrant
  4. abhorration
  5. abhorrations
  6. abhorred
  7. abhorredst
  8. abhorrence
  9. abhorrences
  10. abhorrencies
  11. abhorrency

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