detestable
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}, {detestable},
{obscene}, {repugnant}, {repulsive}]
2: unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of
prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";
"consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke [syn:
{abominable}, {detestable}, {execrable}, {odious}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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