Did you come to the party and make a scandal? Or maybe they wedged into someone else's conversation and quarreled with all its participants? At work, they cheated on their leader? Congratulations, the word “odious” has appeared in your description. What to do - offended or embarrassed to blush?
To someone who does not know the meaning of the word “odious”, this may seem like a compliment. The word is beautiful, sonorous, not erased. But, in order not to deceive ourselves, and to expand our vocabulary, we will open an explanatory dictionary. So ... odious ... the meaning of the word ... Yeah, here. This word has a negative meaning. Odious - one who causes sharply negative emotions. Synonyms for him are unattractive, disgusting, unpleasant. This word comes from the Latin odiosus. The meaning of the word “odious” in Latin is hateful, nasty. Today, thanks to
journalists, this word has acquired additional shades. The meaning of the word “odious” includes such qualities as original, retaining its individuality, having its own opinion against everything. There is a noun “odiosity”, meaning unattractive features inherent in someone.
The word "odious" is applicable to
animate and inanimate objects. In history, literature and our lives you can find a lot of odious characters. Take the story. For example, Hitler was definitely an odious person. Kim Il Sung, choosing Joseph Stalin as his idol, was a tough dictator and received the label of an odious character. As the cults of personality are debunked, each significant character in the story gets the quality “odious” in his characterization.
In literature, these are writers - Venedikt Erofeev, Eduard Limonov, Franz Kafka, whose works evoke very mixed and ambiguous emotions, and characters of the works. For example, "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol is a bunch of colorful, but rather unpleasant characters - Korobochka, Manilov, Sobakevich, Plyushkin. None of them cause sympathy. They are odious.
If we talk about our realities, it is enough to turn on the TV to see the odious people: politicians Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Alexander Yushchenko, athletes Mike Tyson and Rasul Mirzaev, showmen Oleg Garkush and Zhanna Aguzarov, oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
The meaning of the word “odious” fits perfectly with some modern laws. And there are many examples of this. For example, the “Magnitsky law” in the USA can be safely called odious.
So, if you are a brawler; if you persistently oppress your line against everyone and everything; if you are not shy about expressing your opinion; if you do not care what they think about you; if there is no subordination for you; if you don’t take into account other people, be prepared for the fact that a sticker is put on you: “odious personality”. If after you are left the ruins of ruined fun; if people whisper at the sight of you; if they try not to meet your eyes; if troubles are constantly expected from you, you are odious. Your business is how you build your life, but according to the information from the explanatory dictionaries, you are an unpleasant person.