detestable

See also: détestable

English

Etymology

From Middle French détestable. By surface analysis, detest +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈtɛstəbl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: de‧test‧able

Adjective

detestable (comparative more detestable, superlative most detestable)

1. Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.

Derived terms

• detestableness
• detestably
• undetestable

 

Related terms

• detest
• detestability

 

Collocations

with nouns

• detestable crime
• detestable thing
• detestable practices
• detestable act
• detestable character
• detestable nature
• detestable person
• detestable conduct
• detestable villain
• detestable behavior

Translations

stimulating disgust or detestation

• Bulgarian: противен (bg) (protiven), омразен (bg) (omrazen)
• Catalan: detestable
• Esperanto: abomeninda
• Finnish: inhottava (fi), vastenmielinen (fi), kauhistuttava (fi)
• Greek: αξιομίσητος (el) (axiomísitos)
• Irish: gráiniúil
• Latin: dētestābilis, dīrus
• Macedonian: гна́сен (gnásen), га́ден (gáden), о́двратен (ódvraten), о́мразен (ómrazen)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: мерзкий (ru) (merzkij), омерзительный (ru) (omerzitelʹnyj), гнусный (ru) (gnusnyj), отвратительный (ru) (otvratitelʹnyj)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: avskyvärd (sv)

See also

• hateful
• abominable
• loathsome
• horrid

Anagrams

• seatbelted

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dētestābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [də.təsˈtab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [de.tesˈta.ble]

Adjective

detestable m or f (masculine and feminine plural detestables)

1. detestable

Related terms

• detestar

Further reading

• “detestable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “detestable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “detestable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “detestable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dētestābilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /detesˈtable/ [d̪e.t̪esˈt̪a.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: de‧tes‧ta‧ble

Adjective

detestable m or f (masculine and feminine plural detestables)

1. detestable
   • 2015 July 18, “Cómo escribir un artículo”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Los más detestables son los del PP y los "cosmopolitas"; pero paradójicamente esos fachas rinden servicio a la causa, pues "són una fàbrica d'independentistes".

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• detestablemente

 

Related terms

• detestar

 

Further reading

• “detestable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10