detestation
detestation noun: hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
Noun
detestation (countable and uncountable, plural detestations)
- Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
- “… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. …”1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
- Something detested.
- Neckties are a real detestation for them.
detestation meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
detestation in Urdu
- detestation
- نفرت nafrat
detestation in Bengali
- hate coupled with disgust
- ঘেন্না ghenna
detestation in Malayalam
- കഠിനമായ വെറുപ്പ്, വിരോധം, നിന്ദാപാത്രം
Forms of detestation
| plural | detestations |
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Origin of detestation
From Middle French détestation.
Questions about detestation
- What does detestation mean?
- Detestation means hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
- What is detestation in Urdu?
- Detestation in Urdu is نفرت (nafrat). See Detestation meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is detestation?
- Detestation is a noun.
- What is the plural of detestation?
- The plural of detestation is detestations.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: detestation (page history and authors); نفرت (Urdu) (page history and authors); detestation (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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