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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. offensive to the mind;
- Example: "an abhorrent deed"
- Example: "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"
- Example: "morally repugnant customs"
- Example: "repulsive behavior"
- Example: "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
[syn: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive]

2. unequivocally detestable;
- Example: "abominable treatment of prisoners"
- Example: "detestable vices"
- Example: "execrable crimes"
- Example: "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
[syn: abominable, detestable, execrable, odious]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Detestable \De*test"a*ble\, a. [L. detestabilis: cf. F.
   d['e]testable.]
   Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very
   odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.
   [1913 Webster]

         Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable
         things, and with all thine abominations. --Ezek. v. 11.

   Syn: Abominable; odious; execrable; abhorred.
        [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

detestable
    adj 1: offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene
           massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs";
           "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in
           recent novels" [syn: abhorrent, detestable,
           obscene, repugnant, repulsive]
    2: unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of
       prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";
       "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke [syn:
       abominable, detestable, execrable, odious]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

90 Moby Thesaurus words for "detestable":
   abhorrent, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly,
   below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy, brutal,
   contemptible, crude, deplorable, despicable, despiteful, dire,
   disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid,
   filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross,
   hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, infamous, lamentable,
   loathsome, lousy, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic,
   monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious,
   noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive,
   outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, rank, rebarbative, regrettable,
   repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten,
   sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking,
   shoddy, sickening, sordid, sorry, squalid, stinking, terrible,
   too bad, unclean, unlikable, vile, villainous, woeful, worst,
   worthless, wretched