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odium

/ˈəʊ.di.əm/US/ˈoʊ.di.əm/

odium noun: hatred; dislike.

Noun

odium (countable and uncountable, plural odiums)

  1. Hatred; dislike.
    • His conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
    • And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a...1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser
  2. The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
    • She threw the odium of the fact on me.1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act V, page 82

odium meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

odium in Tamil

பகை, பழி, வெறுப்பு

odium in Urdu

گھن, کراہیت, ناگواری, نفرت, تنفر

odium in Bengali

ঘৃণা, নিন্দা, কলঙ্ক

odium in Malayalam

abhorrence, disgust, repugnance
വെറുപ്പ്, പക, വിപ്രതിപത്തി, അപ്രീതി, ഇഷ്ടക്കേട്, നീരസം
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odium in Kannada
ಹಗೆತನ, ಕಿಸುರು, ಹೇಸಿಕೆ

Forms of odium

pluralodiums

Origin of odium

Learned borrowing from Latin odium, from Proto-Italic *odjom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-.

Words that rhyme with odium

Questions about odium

What does odium mean?
Odium means hatred; dislike.
What is odium in Tamil?
Odium in Tamil is பகை, பழி, வெறுப்பு. See Odium meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is odium?
Odium is a noun.
How do you pronounce odium?
Odium is pronounced /ˈəʊ.di.əm/ (UK).
What is the plural of odium?
The plural of odium is odiums.

Words near odium in the dictionary

  1. Odisho
  2. Odishos
  3. odism
  4. odist
  5. odists
  6. odium
  7. odium generis humani
  8. odium philologicum
  9. odium theologicum
  10. odiums
  11. odize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: odium (page history and authors); odium (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); odium (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); odium (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); odium (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); odium (Kannada 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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