reprehensible

3 definitions found

reprehensible - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Reprehensible \Rep`re*hen"si*ble\ (-h?n"s?-b'l), a. [L.
     reprehensibilis: cf. F. r['e]pr['e]hensible.]
     Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable. --
     Rep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. -- Rep`re*hen"si*bly, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

reprehensible - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  reprehensible
      adj 1: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a
             criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of
             violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as
             for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal,
             deplorable, reprehensible, vicious]

reprehensible - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "reprehensible":
     abominable, accusable, amiss, arraignable, arrant, at fault,
     atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, black,
     blamable, blameful, blameworthy, brutal, censurable, chargeable,
     contemptible, criminal, culpable, damnable, dark, deplorable,
     despicable, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful,
     egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, faulty, fetid, filthy,
     flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, guilty,
     hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, impeachable, implicated,
     improper, imputable, inculpated, indictable, infamous, iniquitous,
     involved, knavish, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, monstrous,
     nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious,
     offensive, open to criticism, outrageous, peccant, pitiable,
     pitiful, rank, regrettable, reproachable, reprobate, reprovable,
     repulsive, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby,
     shameful, shocking, shoddy, sinful, sordid, squalid, terrible,
     to blame, too bad, unclean, unforgivable, unholy, unpardonable,
     unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, woeful,
     worst, worthless, wretched, wrong