0 something that is strongly disliked or disapproved of: --
Credit controls are anathema to the government.
1 something that is considered completely wrong and offensive: --
She found her present word-finding problems anathema, and they led her to be less and less willing to speak.
However, the temptation to reject the critical approach as anathema to ' problem solving ' should be avoided.
This ironically results in contributors making 'political' statements that would be anathema in their primary professional paradigm as grammarians or lexicographers.
The concept of the general, the universal, the common to all become anathema.
Collusion with labour is particularly anathema to the liberal perspective.
On one reading it might appear democratic anathema to expect anything else.
The key difference is that the ad hoc approach considers regional interdependence and the creation of regional institutions that would formalise cooperation/integration, as anathema.
The party elite regarded this new populist style and the consequent political awakening of the urban working class as anathema.
