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English
Etymology
From Old French execrable, from Latin execrabilis.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɛksɪkɹəbl/, /ˈɛksəkɹəbl/, /ˈɛkskɹəbl/
Adjective
execrable (comparative more execrable, superlative most execrable)
- Of the poorest quality.
- 2024, G. S. Hans, Law Professors Can’t Keep Carrying Water For the Supreme Court, in: Balls and Strikes, August 5 2024
- As execrable as the Supreme Court’s decisions have been, they are of a piece with the conservative rulings from lower court judges who see no issue with laundering a revanchist policy agenda through contorted rulings.
- Hateful.
- 1779, Jefferson, letter to Patrick Henry written on March 27
- But is an enemy so execrable, that, though in captivity, his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
2001 June 1, David Langford with John Grant, Guts: A Comedy of Manners, Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 72:The arcanely evil words of that despicable, loathsome, suppressed, vile, pululating , odious, nictating, repellent, repugnant, noxious, abhorrent, abominable, tory, execrable, nauseous work, Ye Boke of Guts, moved as if on a conveyor belt before his eyes.
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with nouns
- execrable taste
- execrable road
- execrable crime
- execrable murder
- execrable thing
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exsecrābilis.
Adjective
execrable m or f (masculine and feminine plural execrables)
- execrable
Further reading
- “execrable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
- “execrable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “execrable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “execrable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin execrābilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɡseˈkɾable/
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: e‧xe‧cra‧ble
Adjective
execrable m or f (masculine and feminine plural execrables)
- execrable
Further reading