'Despicable' definitions:
Definition of 'despicable'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Despicable'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'despicable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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