Usually means: Strongly cursed, detested, or loathed.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. anathema: Merriam-Webster
  2. anathema: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anathema: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anathema: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anathema: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anathema, anathema: Wordnik
  7. anathema: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anathema: Wiktionary
  9. anathema: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anathema: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anathema: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Anathema, anathema: Dictionary.com
  13. anathema: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. anathema: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Anathema (band), Anathema: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Anathema: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. anathema: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. anathema: Rhymezone
  19. anathema, anathema (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. anathema: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. anathema: FreeDictionary.org
  22. anathema: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. anathema: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. anathema: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Anathema: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  26. anathema: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. anathema: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ANATHEMA: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. anathema: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anathema: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anathema: Easton Bible
  2. Anathema: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anathema: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See anathemas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
noun:  (by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
noun:  (literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
noun:  (ecclesiastical) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority to unending punishment.

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