Execrable

3 definitions found

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

  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. -- {Ex"e*cra*ble*ness}, n. -- {Ex"e*cra*bly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

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

  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