Despicable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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