'Bete noire' definitions:
Definition of 'bete noire'
From: WordNet
noun
A detested person; "he is an anathema to me" [syn: anathema, bete noire]
Definition of 'Bete noire'
From: GCIDE
- Bete noire \B[^e]te" noire"\ [Fr., lit. black beast.] Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bete noire'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affliction,
- anathema,
- bane,
- bogey,
- bogeyman,
- boggart,
- bogle,
- booger,
- boogerman,
- boogeyman,
- bug,
- bugaboo,
- bugbear,
- bugger,
- burden,
- calamity,
- crushing burden,
- curse,
- death,
- destruction,
- detestation,
- disease,
- Dracula,
- evil,
- fee-faw-fum,
- Frankenstein,
- frightener,
- ghost,
- ghoul,
- grievance,
- harm,
- hate,
- hobgoblin,
- holy terror,
- horror,
- incubus,
- infliction,
- monster,
- Mumbo Jumbo,
- nemesis,
- nightmare,
- ogre,
- ogress,
- open wound,
- pest,
- pestilence,
- phantom,
- plague,
- revenant,
- running sore,
- scarebabe,
- scarecrow,
- scarer,
- scourge,
- specter,
- succubus,
- terror,
- thorn,
- torment,
- vampire,
- vexation,
- visitation,
- werewolf,
- woe,
- Wolf-man