Meaning of DETESTABLE
| Pronunciation: | | di'testubul
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- [adj] unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
- [adj] offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
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| | Synonyms: | | abhorrent, abominable, execrable, hateful, obscene, odious, offensive, repugnant, repulsive |
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| | Definition: | | \De*test"a*ble\, a. [L. detestabilis: cf. F.
d['e]testable.]
Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very
odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.
Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable
things, and with all thine abominations. --Ezek. v. 11.
Syn: Abominable; odious; execrable; abhorred.
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| | Related Terms: | | abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, crude, deplorable, despicable, despiteful, dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, infamous, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sordid, sorry, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, unlikable, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched |
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