execrable

From Old French execrable, from Latin execrabilis.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛksɪkɹəbl/, /ˈɛksəkɹəbl/, /ˈɛkskɹəbl/

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execrable (comparative more execrable, superlative most execrable)

1. Of the poorest quality.
   • 2024, G. S. Hans, Law Professors Can’t Keep Carrying Water For the Supreme Court, in: Balls and Strikes, August 5 2024

     As execrable as the Supreme Court’s decisions have been, they are of a piece with the conservative rulings from lower court judges who see no issue with laundering a revanchist policy agenda through contorted rulings.

2. Hateful, disgusting.
   • 1779, Jefferson, letter to Patrick Henry written on March 27

     But is an enemy so execrable, that, though in captivity, his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

   • 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.

• execrableness
• execrably
• execration
• execrate

Borrowed from Latin exsecrābilis.

execrable m or f (masculine and feminine plural execrables)

1. execrable

• execrar

• “execrable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “execrable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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.

Borrowed from Latin execrābilis.

• IPA^(key): /eɡseˈkɾable/ [eɣ̞.seˈkɾa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: e‧xe‧cra‧ble

execrable m or f (masculine and feminine plural execrables)

1. execrable

• “execrable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024