detestable
See also: détestable
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Etymology edit
From Middle French détestable. By surface analysis, detest + -able.
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detestable (comparative more detestable, superlative most detestable)
- Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.
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with nouns
- detestable crime
- detestable thing
- detestable practices
- detestable act
- detestable character
- detestable nature
- detestable person
- detestable conduct
- detestable villain
- detestable behavior
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stimulating disgust or detestation
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin dētestābilis.
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detestable m or f (masculine and feminine plural detestables)
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Further reading edit
- “detestable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “detestable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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.
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Etymology edit
From Latin dētestābilis.
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detestable m or f (masculine and feminine plural detestables)
- 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)
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- “detestable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014