abhorred

American  

[ab-hawrd] / æbˈhɔrd /

adjective

1. regarded with extreme disgust or hatred; detested; loathed.

   Toothache is one of the most abhorred forms of bodily pain.

   After the first free election and the departure of the abhorred dictator, a ray of hope began to shine.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of abhor.

Other Word Forms

• unabhorred
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of abhorred

First recorded in 1530–40; abhor ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective; abhor ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb

Example Sentences

The public both abhorred and adored the scandal.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026

By the late-19th century, “Grub Street” had become a generic term for ambitious, worldly—and mostly talentless—writers, everything the classicist Gissing abhorred.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Petitions poured into the office of Gov. Edmund “Pat” Brown, a Democrat who believed Chessman guilty but abhorred the death penalty on religious grounds.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2024

He was also a silver-tongued intellectual who abhorred boorish thinking and behavior and savored debates with the sharpest minds of his era.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2024

He was too scared and too chicken to act, and he abhorred the deep-down feeling of relief in himself, for this must mean, surely, thank God, it signaled the end of the affair.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Related Words

• appalled
• outraged
• queasy
• tired
• unhappy
• weary