execrable

Speech parts

1. execrable - Adjective

2. execrable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

wretched deplorable abominable detestable foul miserable monstrous repulsive disgusting vile abhorrent despicable heinous revolting atrocious
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Antonyms

supreme sterling primo sheik prime grand
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Related terms

execration execrate execrably execrableness

Phrases with the word

execrable manners less execrable more execrable

Anagrams

excreable

Examples

The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor? Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade. John Wesley

Good news from France, where the man picked by Nicolas Sarkozy as his foreign minister is not the execrable Hubert Védrine, but Bernard Kouchner - a socialist who supports Israel and the invasion of Iraq. Charles Foster Johnson

If consciousness is, as some inhuman thinker has said, nothing more than a flash of light between two eternities of darkness, then there is nothing more execrable than existence. Miguel de Unamuno

I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name. Samuel Beckett

Few men would be so gentle as to spare even the best, if by their destruction vile usurpers could become God's anointed, and by the most execrable wickedness invest themselves with that divine character. Algernon Sydney

Close letter words and terms

exec exec producer exec-produce execrable manners execrableness execrably