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English
Etymology
From Middle French détestable. By surface analysis, detest + -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈtɛstəbl̩/
- Hyphenation: de‧test‧able
Adjective
detestable (comparative more detestable, superlative most detestable)
- Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.
Derived terms
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)
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dētestābilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
detestable m or f (masculine and feminine plural detestables)
- detestable
Further reading
- “detestable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
- “detestable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “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/
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: de‧tes‧ta‧ble
Adjective
detestable m or f (masculine and feminine plural detestables)
- detestable
2015 July 18, “Cómo escribir un artículo”, in El País: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)
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