Choose the correct synonym of the given word - ANATHEMA
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Curse
Anathema originally means a formal curse pronounced by a church. Today it also means something that one strongly dislikes or rejects. Its synonym is curse.
Example: Racism is anathema to every fair-minded person.
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Religious Chant | a chant, a sung or repeated prayer or hymn (an anathema is a curse, not a song of worship) | The monks began their evening chant. |
| (2) Musical subject | a theme in a piece of music (it has no link with anathema) | – |
| (3) Pun | a joke that plays on two meanings of a word or on words that sound alike | His speech was full of clever puns. |
| (4) Curse (answer) | a solemn appeal for evil or harm to fall on someone, or a thing that causes harm (the first meaning of anathema) | The villagers believed the old house carried a curse. |
| Synonyms of anathema: curse, abomination, bane, abhorrence Antonyms of anathema: blessing, benediction, favourite, delight |