Usually means: Causing disgust or hatred; detestable.
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  1. abhorrent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abhorrent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abhorrent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abhorrent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abhorrent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abhorrent, abhorrent: Wordnik
  7. abhorrent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abhorrent: Wiktionary
  9. abhorrent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abhorrent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abhorrent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Abhorrent, abhorrent: Dictionary.com
  13. abhorrent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Abhorrent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. abhorrent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. abhorrent: Rhymezone
  17. Abhorrent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. abhorrent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. abhorrent: Free Dictionary
  20. abhorrent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. abhorrent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. abhorrent: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. abhorrent: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See abhorrently as well.)

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adjective:  (archaic) Inconsistent with, or far removed from, something; strongly opposed.
adjective:  Contrary to something; discordant.
adjective:  Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
adjective:  Detestable or repugnant.

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