Definitions for odium

odium o·di·um

Spelling: [oh-dee-uh m]
IPA: /ˈoʊ di əm/

Odium is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in odium (dimou).

Definitions for odium

noun

  1. intense hatred or dislike, especially toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant.
  2. the reproach, discredit, or opprobrium attaching to something hated or repugnant:
  3. the state or quality of being hated.

Origin of odium

1595-1605; Latin: hatred, equivalent to od(isse) to hate + -ium -ium

Examples for odium

I would like to say that I have no fear of the odium of the designation of iconoclast.

Wilson, as holding the purse strings, had to bear the odium of all this.

And the odium for all this fell especially on President Wilson.

The odium which attached to him when alive has not been removed by his death.

Another cause of odium had been Manourie's tale of his habit of reviling the King.

I hope it is fully cleared from the odium of both these imputations.

Jay was barred by the odium attaching to the treaty with Great Britain.

His faults, and even his virtues, contributed to this odium.

As it was, they were insufficient to remove the odium with which rumour surrounded his name.

The appropriation of the money did not lessen the odium of the tax.

Word Value for odium
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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