abominates
Regards with disgust
Abominates is the third-person singular of abominate, meaning to regard with intense loathing or moral revulsion.
Stronger than dislike or even hate, abominate suggests visceral disgust: She abominates cruelty in any form.
The word is formal and somewhat literary, more often encountered in writing than speech.
detests
Intensely dislike
- despiseHate with contempt
- abhorIntensely dislike, with disgust
- execrateDespise and denounce
- hateIntense hostile aversion
scorn · disdain · spurn · reject · repudiate · condemn · deplore · shun
loathe
Intensely dislike
hate · scorn · disdain · spurn · reject · repudiate · condemn · deplore · shun · recoil
condemn
Declare wrong or guilty
censure · reprobate · disapprove · object · protest · oppose · reject · repudiate · inveigh · take exception
repulse
Drive back or disgust
- sickenCause illness or disgust
- nauseateInduce queasiness or revulsion
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
repel · offend · appall · horrify · disgust · gross out · turn off