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Definitions for execrable
ˈɛk sɪ krə bəlex·e·crable

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretchedadjective

    of very poor quality or condition

    "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"

  2. abominable, detestable, execrable, odiousadjective

    unequivocally detestable

    "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

  3. damnable, execrableadjective

    deserving a curse

    "her damnable pride"

Wiktionary

  1. execrableadjective

    of the poorest quality

  2. execrableadjective

    hateful

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Execrableadjective

    Hateful; detestable; accursed; abominable.

    Etymology: execrabilis, Latin.

    For us to change that which he hath established, they hold it execrable pride and presumption. Richard Hooker, b. iii. s. 10.

    Of the visible church of Jesus Christ those may be, in respect of their outward profession; who, in regard of their inward disposition, are most worthily both hateful in the sight of God himself, and in the eyes of the sounder parts of the visible church most execrable. Richard Hooker, b. iii. s. 1.

    Give sentence on this execrable wretch,
    That hath been breeder of these dire events. William Shakespeare, Tit. And.

    When execrable Troy in ashes lay,
    Through fires, and swords, and seas, they forc’d their way. John Dryden, Æn. b. vii. l. 408.

ChatGPT

  1. execrable

    Execrable refers to something extremely bad, unpleasant, inferior, or of very poor quality. It is often used to describe abhorrent conditions, actions, habits or behaviors.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Execrableadjective

    deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch

  2. Etymology: [L. execrabilis, exsecrabilis: cf. F. excrable. See Execrate.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of execrable in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of execrable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of execrable in a Sentence

  1. John Adams:

    [D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

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