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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
Kate Winslet

Meaning of "loathing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LOATHING

loathing  [ˈləʊðɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LOATHING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Loathing is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LOATHING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hatred

Hatred is a deep and emotional extreme dislike. It can be directed against individuals, entities, objects, or ideas. Hatred is often associated with feelings of anger and a disposition towards hostility. Commonly held moral rules, such as the Golden Rule, oppose hatred towards others.

Definition of loathing in the English dictionary

The definition of loathing in the dictionary is abhorrence; disgust.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LOATHING


bathing
ˈbeɪðɪŋ
breathing
ˈbriːðɪŋ
clothing
ˈkləʊðɪŋ
farthing
ˈfɑːðɪŋ
nithing
ˈnaɪðɪŋ
overbreathing
ˌəʊvəˈbriːðɪŋ
scathing
ˈskeɪðɪŋ
seething
ˈsiːðɪŋ
self-loathing
ˌselfˈləʊðɪŋ
sheathing
ˈʃiːðɪŋ
soothing
ˈsuːðɪŋ
southing
ˈsaʊðɪŋ
sunbathing
ˈsʌnbeɪðɪŋ
teething
ˈtiːðɪŋ
tithing
ˈtaɪðɪŋ
trithing
ˈtraɪðɪŋ
unbreathing
ʌnˈbriːðɪŋ
unclothing
ʌnˈkləʊðɪŋ
underclothing
ˈʌndəˌkləʊðɪŋ
Worthing
ˈwɜːðɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOATHING

loanee
loaner
loaning
loanshift
loath
loathe
loathedness
loather
loathful
loathfulness
loathingly
loathliness
loathly
loathness
loathsome
loathsomely
loathsomeness
loave
loaves

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOATHING

anything
be on to a good thing
birthing
everything
first thing
fishing
get down on something
gunsmithing
hypnobirthing
know-nothing
last thing
like anything
nothing
something
sure thing
the first thing
the other thing
the real thing
the thing
thing
wolf in sheep´s clothing

Synonyms and antonyms of loathing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LOATHING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «loathing» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of loathing

Translation of «loathing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LOATHING

Find out the translation of loathing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of loathing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «loathing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

憎恶
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

aversión
570 millions of speakers

English

loathing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घृणा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كراهية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отвращение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ódio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঘৃণাকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dégoût
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kecewa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Abscheu
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

嫌悪
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

혐오
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngguyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự không ưa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இன்மையும் வெறுப்பும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तिरस्कार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iğrenme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ripugnanza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wstręt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відраза
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dezgust
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απέχθεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

weersin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avsky
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avsky
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of loathing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LOATHING»

The term «loathing» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.141 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LOATHING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about loathing

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9 QUOTES WITH «LOATHING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word loathing.
1
Rosecrans Baldwin
France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find in the movies of David Lynch.
2
Mary Boykin Chesnut
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
3
Nick Clegg
Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.
4
Carole Ann Ford
I must say that when I left 'Doctor Who,' I was filled with... not loathing, but I was incredibly annoyed because I wanted to do more television and films and the only thing that people could ever see me in was a recreation of what I had done.
5
Caroline Lawrence
When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
6
Laura Riding
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
7
Kurt Vonnegut
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
8
Loudon Wainwright III
I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.
9
Kate Winslet
I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOATHING»

Discover the use of loathing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to loathing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the ...
It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.
Hunter S. Thompson, 2010
2
Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an ...
Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson’s private correspondence is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway.
Hunter S. Thompson, 2011
3
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
The "gonzo" political journalist presents his frankly subjective observations on the personalities and political machinations of the 1972 presidential campaign, in a new edition of the classic account of the dark side of American politics.
Hunter S. Thompson, 2006
4
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories, ...
Contains the journalist's classic account of his visit to Las Vegas, and includes three companion pieces
Hunter S. Thompson, 1998
5
Fear and Loathing in Pattaya
The rivalries, jealousies, motivations and emotions that are the fabric of a human tragedy go unreported.This book seeks to rectify that and it also seeks to show balance; that as much as the blame can be pointed at the motivations of a ...
Mark Jones
6
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in 2008-09, which brought into power the country's most right-wing government to date, Blumenthal tells the story of Israel in the wake of the collapse of the ...
Max Blumenthal, 2013
7
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of ...
An anthology of top-selected Rolling Stone articles offers insight into both the late Thompson's early career and the magazine's fledgling years, in a volume that includes the stories of his infamous Freak Party sheriff campaign and his ...
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner, 2012
8
Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid
In doing so he reveals the human story behind this explosive rivalry.
Sid Lowe, 2013
9
Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
David B. Feinberg, 1995
10
Cityboy Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile
Who is Cityboy?
Geraint Anderson, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOATHING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term loathing is used in the context of the following news items.
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Fear And Loathing At Netroots Nation - The Federalist
Fear And Loathing At Netroots Nation. The craziness at Netroots Nation 2015 could have been ripped from Hunter S. Thompson's pages. And it ... «The Federalist, Jul 15»
2
Hunter S. Thompson: Beyond Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
It's easy to understand why people revere Thompson for having created Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. However, there's much more to ... «Legacy.com, Jul 15»
3
Humiliation on aisle 4 at Erewhon: Loathing it but owning it
I'm a single working mom. I do not go out in sweatpants. Hair needs washing? OK. But no sweatpants, ever. I help with morning drop-off at my ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
4
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas: A Comprehensive List Of MMA …
Cast your minds back to late 2013, when a dishevelled welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre vacated his belt. He cited the MMA drug ... «LowKick MMA, Jul 15»
5
Blind Pug Arts Collective Presents: The Theatre of Self-Loathing
Blind Pug Arts Collective Presents: The Theatre of Self-Loathing Presents: 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?' Interview with Eddie and Cassilda. «DC Metro Theater Arts, Jul 15»
6
Sixers Lose To Nets, Complete With Self-Loathing
There's a little insanity in every person who makes a yearly trek to Las Vegas to watch low-quality basketball. This afternoon's contest was the ... «Liberty Ballers, Jul 15»
7
New Play Reading: 'THE LOATHING': This Monday, July 20th at 7:00 …
On Monday, July 20, at 7:00 p.m., The Playwrights Forum will present a public reading of Robert Michael Oliver's new play, The Loathing. «DC Metro Theater Arts, Jul 15»
8
Hip Shot: Blind Pug Arts Collective Presents: The Theatre of Self …
They say: A burgeoning theatre company from eastern Europe brings its revolutionary new movement — the Theatre of Self-Loathing — to ... «Washington City Paper, Jul 15»
9
Fear and Loathing in Luanda
We can currently observe a great variety of 'morbid symptoms' of fin de régime in Angola, ranging from the farcical to the tragic. It would appear ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
10
Robbie Williams Reveals He Previously Retired Because Of Sales …
Com.au, the singer explains how his innate sense of sense-loathing meant he was unable to cope with his success around 2006, that included ... «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»

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