Detestable \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.
[1913 Webster]
Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable
things, and with all thine abominations. --Ezek. v. 11.
Syn: Abominable; odious; execrable; abhorred.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
detestable
adj 1: 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" [syn: abhorrent, obscene,
repugnant, repulsive]
2: unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of
prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";
"consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
[syn: abominable, execrable, odious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "detestable":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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