detestable - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

• Beginning
• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Adjective
    * 1.3.1 Derived terms
    * 1.3.3 Collocations
    * 1.3.4 Translations
    * 1.3.5 See also
  • 1.4 Anagrams
• 2 Catalan
  • 2.1 Etymology
  • 2.2 Pronunciation
  • 2.3 Adjective
  • 2.4 Further reading
• 3 Spanish
  • 3.1 Etymology
  • 3.2 Pronunciation
  • 3.3 Adjective
    * 3.3.1 Derived terms
  • 3.4 Further reading

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

• IPA(key): /dɪˈtɛstəbl̩/
• Hyphenation: de‧test‧able

detestable (comparative more detestable, superlative most detestable)

1. Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.
   detestable person
   detestable food
   detestable woman
   detestable manners

• detestableness

• detestably

• undetestable

• detest

• detestability

with nouns

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

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: detestável (pt) m or f

• Russian: мерзкий (ru) (merzkij), омерзительный (ru) (omerzitelʹnyj), гнусный (ru) (gnusnyj), отвратительный (ru) (otvratitelʹnyj)

• Spanish: detestable (es)

• Swedish: avskyvärd (sv)

• hateful

• abominable

• loathsome

• horrid

• seatbelted

Borrowed from Latin dētestābilis.

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

detestable m or f (masculine and feminine plural detestables)

1. detestable

• detestar
• “detestable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “detestable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “detestable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “detestable”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Latin dētestābilis.

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

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)

• detestablemente

• detestar

• “detestable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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• English adjectives
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• Rhymes:Spanish/able
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• Spanish lemmas
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