Word Meanings - DESPICABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESPICABLE)
- Abject
- Degraded
- outcast
- miserable
- vile
- pitiable
- worthless
- despicable
- groveling
- fawning
- squalid
- base-minded
- slavish
- beggarly
- servile
- cringing
- low
- wretched
- sordid
- Contemptible
- mean
- pitiful
- disreputable
- paltry
- trifling
- trivial
- Mean
- Common
- base
- spiritless
- dishonorable
- contemptible
- vulgar
- niggardly
- Miserable
- forlorn
- disconsolate
- Vile
- Cheap
- worthier
- valueless
- hateful
- bad
- impure
- vicious
- abandoned
- abject
- sinful
- ignoble
- wicked
- villainous
- degraded
Related words: (words related to DESPICABLE)
- SQUALIDLY
In a squalid manner. - SORDIDNESS
The quality or state of being sordid. - FAWN
A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak. - CRINGLE
An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate. - MISERABLENESS
The state or quality of being miserable. - CHEAPLY
At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner. - ABJECT
1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; - COMMONER
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground. - FAWNINGLY
In a fawning manner. - SERVILELY
In a servile manner; slavishly. - MISERABLE
1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters - SQUALIDNESS
Quality or state of being squalid. - BEGGARLY
1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced - DESPICABLE
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible. - SERVILENESS
Quality of being servile; servility. - IGNOBLENESS
State or quality of being ignoble. - COMMONISH
Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar. - FORLORNLY
In a forlorn manner. Pollok. - WICKER
1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman. 3. Same as - HATEFUL
1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden. 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak. Syn. - UNCOMMON
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n. - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - INTERCOMMON
To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon. - TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong - BRUNSWICK GREEN
An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. - BAILIWICK
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority. - CONVICIOUS
Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth .