anathema
noun
[ əˈnaθəmə ]
• something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.
• "racial hatred was anathema to her"
Similar:
abhorrent,
hateful,
odious,
repugnant,
repellent,
offensive,
abomination,
abhorrence,
aversion,
monstrosity,
outrage,
evil,
disgrace,
bane,
bugbear,
bête noire,
pariah,
• a formal curse by a pope or a council of the Church, excommunicating a person or denouncing a doctrine.
• "the Pope laid special emphasis on the second of these anathemas"
Similar:
curse,
ban,
excommunication,
damnation,
proscription,
debarment,
denunciation,
malediction,
execration,
imprecation,
Origin:
early 16th century: from ecclesiastical Latin, ‘excommunicated person, excommunication’, from Greek anathema ‘thing dedicated’, (later) ‘thing devoted to evil, accursed thing’, from anatithenai ‘to set up’.
