Definition of Execrable

1. Adjective. Of very poor quality or condition. "Woeful errors of judgment"

Exact synonyms: Deplorable, Miserable, Woeful, Wretched
Similar to: Inferior
Derivative terms: Miserableness, Wretchedness

2. Adjective. Unequivocally detestable. "Consequences odious to those you govern"
Exact synonyms: Abominable, Detestable, Odious
Similar to: Hateful
Derivative terms: Abominate, Odiousness, Odium

3. Adjective. Deserving a curse. "Her damnable pride"
Exact synonyms: Damnable
Similar to: Cursed, Curst

Definition of Execrable

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

Definition of Execrable

1. Adjective. Of the poorest quality. ¹

2. Adjective. Hateful. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Execrable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Execrable

excusive
excuss
excussion
excussions
excycloduction
excyclophoria
excyclotorsion
excyclotropia
excyclovergence
excystation
exduction
exeat
exeats
exec
exec.
execrable (current term)
execrableness
execrablenesses
execrably
execrate
execrated
execrates
execrating
execration
execrations
execrative
execratives
execrator
execrators
execratory

Literary usage of Execrable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"... History of the execrable Irish Rebellion (London, 1680, and Dublin, 1743), a long correspondence between Ireton, the Cromwellian, and Preston, ..."

2. Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a by Charles Swan (1824)
"OF THE execrable DEVICES OF OLD WOMEN. IN the kingdom of a certain empress there lived a soldier who was happily espoused to a noble, chaste, and beautiful ..."

3. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"He declares that he is ' an atrocious and execrable wretch for ever inflicting upon Falkland an agony a thousand times worse than death. ..."

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