Antonyms for DETEST
dɪˈtɛstde·test

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1. detest

   Abhor is stronger than despise, implying a shuddering recoil, especially a moral recoil. "How many shun evil as inconvenient who do not abhor it as hateful." Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xxvi, 297. [Murray's "New English Dictionary"] Detest expresses indignation, with something of contempt. Loathe implies disgust, physical or moral. We abhor a traitor, despise a coward, detest a liar. We dislike an uncivil person. We abhor cruelty, hate tyranny. We loathe a reptile or a flatterer. We abhor Milton's heroic Satan, but we can not despise him.

   Antonyms:
   admire, approve, covet, crave, desire, enjoy, esteem, esteem, like, love, relish

   Synonyms:
   abhor, abominate, despise, dislike, hate, loathe, nauseate, scorn, shun

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1. • Dislike

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1. hate, detestverb

   dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards

   "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians"

   Synonyms:
   detest, hate

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1. detestverb

   Synonyms:
   loathe, despise, abominate, abhor, hate, execrate

How to use DETEST in a sentence?

1. George Gordon Byron:

   Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

2. Stephen Leacock:

   I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

3. Perry Brass:

   Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

4. H. L. Mencken:

   I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

5. J. K. Rowling:

   Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

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