execrable
See also: exécrable
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Etymology edit
From Old French execrable, from Latin execrabilis.
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execrable (comparative more execrable, superlative most execrable)
- Of the poorest quality.
- Hateful.
- 1779, Jefferson, letter to Patrick Henry written on March 27
- 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 [sic], 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 edit
of the poorest quality
hateful
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin exsecrābilis.
Adjective edit
execrable m or f (masculine and feminine plural execrables)
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Further reading edit
- “execrable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “execrable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin execrābilis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
execrable m or f (masculine and feminine plural execrables)
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- “execrable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014