Execrable \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. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
execrable
adj 1: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of
the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: deplorable,
miserable, woeful, wretched]
2: unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of
prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";
"consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
[syn: abominable, detestable, odious]
3: deserving a curse; "her damnable pride" [syn: damnable]
WordNet (r) 2.0
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "execrable":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abominable, damnable, deplorable, detestable, miserable, odious, woeful, wretched
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