- a person or thing detested or loathed: That subject is anathema to him.
- a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction.
- a formal ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication.
- any imprecation of divine punishment.
- a curse; execration.
- a detested person or thing
- a formal ecclesiastical curse of excommunication or a formal denunciation of a doctrine
- the person or thing so cursed
- a strong curse; imprecation
