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Degrading vs Odious - What's the difference?

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Degrading is a related term of odious.


As adjectives the difference between degrading and odious

is that degrading is that degrades while odious is arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.

As a verb degrading

is .

degrading

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that degrades

    • odious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
    • Scrubbing the toilet is an odious task.
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    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=6 citation , passage=He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.}}

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "odious" is often applied: debt, man, character, crime, task, comparison, woman, person, vice, word, act.

    Synonyms

    * detestable, hated, reviled, unsavory, contemptible, despicable

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