anathema

«anathema» in Mova's school dictionary: something or someone that people strongly hate and want… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (no plural in common use)

meaning for a pupil

1) Anathema is something or someone that people strongly hate and want to avoid. tree →

2) (old use) A curse put on a person by a church or a leader. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales, a fierce dispute or a curse that cannot be lifted; a word for what is hated

examples

• Lies were anathema to the honest king. tree →
• In the old tale, the dispute became an anathema. tree →
• Cruelty is anathema to kind people. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «anathema» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.