EXECRABLE: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'eksukrubul
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- [adj] deserving a curse; "her damnable pride"
- [adj] unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
- [adj] of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
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| | Synonyms: | | abominable, cursed, curst, damnable, deplorable, detestable, hateful, inferior, miserable, odious, woeful, wretched |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex"e*cra*ble\, a. [L. execrabilis, exsecrabilis: cf.
F. ex['e]crable. See {Execrate}.]
Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable;
abominable; as, an execrable wretch. ``Execrable pride.''
--Hooker. -- {Ex"e*cra*ble*ness}, n. -- {Ex"e*cra*bly}, adv.
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| | Related Terms: | | abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, arrant, atrocious, bad, base, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, black, blamable, blameworthy, cheesy, contemptible, criminal, crude, crummy, cursed, damn, damnable, damned, dark, debased, degraded, demoniac, demonic, depraved, despicable, detestable, devilish, diabolic, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, evil, fetid, fiendish, flagitious, flagrant, forbidding, foul, fulsome, ghoulish, goddamn, goddamned, grave, gross, hateful, heinous, hellish, horrific, horrifying, ignoble, improper, infamous, infernal, iniquitous, knavish, little, loathsome, low, low-down, lumpen, malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, paltry, peccant, petty, poky, poor, rank, rebarbative, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, satanic, scabby, scandalous, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shoddy, sickening, sinful, small, squalid, stinking, unforgivable, ungodly, unmentionable, unpardonable, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wretched, wrong |
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