Despicable \Des"pi*ca*ble\, a. [L. despicabilis, fr. despicari
to despise; akin to despicere. See Despise.]
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile;
worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a
despicable gift.
Syn: Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry;
sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
despicable
adj 1: worthy only of being despised and rejected; "a contemptible
lack of courage"; "A little, wretched, despicable
creature, a worm, a mere nothing...that has risen up
in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth"-
Jonathan Edwards [syn: contemptible]
2: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as
murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery
appalled them" [syn: ugly, vile, unworthy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "despicable":
abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base,
beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy,
brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crude, crummy,
debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, detestable, dire, dirty,
disgraceful, disgusting, disreputable, dreadful, egregious,
enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul,
fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, grievous, gross, hateful,
heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious, infamous,
lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen,
malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal,
miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious,
noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene,
odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, petty, pitiable,
pitiful, poky, poor, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent,
reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten,
rubbishy, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy,
scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shameless, shocking,
shoddy, sickening, small, sordid, sorry, squalid, stinking,
terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent,
two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, ugly, unclean,
unmentionable, valueless, vile, villainous, woeful, worst,
worthless, wretched
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
contemptible, ugly, unworthy, vile
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