Detestable

3 definitions found

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

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

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

  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