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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Despicable \Des"pi*ca*ble\, a. [L. despicabilis, fr. despicari
     to despise; akin to despicere. See Despise.]
     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.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Despicable \Des"pi*ca*ble\, a. [L. despicabilis, fr. despicari
     to despise; akin to despicere. See Despise.]
     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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  despicable
       adj 1: worthy only of being despised and rejected; "a contemptible
              lack of courage"; "A little, wretched, despicable
              creature, a worm, a mere nothing...that has risen up
              in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth"-
              Jonathan Edwards [syn: contemptible]
       2: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as
          murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery
          appalled them" [syn: ugly, vile, unworthy]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  despicable
     Αγγλικά n.
     αξιοκαταφρόνητος

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  despicable
     a.
     Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
     n.
     A wretched or wicked person.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  despicable
     a.
     Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
     n.
     A wretched or wicked person.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  despicable
     a.
     Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
     n.
     A wretched or wicked person.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  despicable
     a.
     Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean.
     n.
     A wretched or wicked person.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  despicable
     Englanti a.
     halveksittava, kurja

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  despicable
     Engelska a.
     lumpen, föraktlig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Despicable /dɪspˈɪkəbəl/
  حقير

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  despicable //dɪˈspɪkəbəl// //ˈdɛspɪkəbəl// 
  жа́лък, презря́н
  deserving to be despised

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  despicable /dɪspˈɪkəbəl/
  opovrženíhodný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  despicable /dɪspˈɪkəbəl/
  mrzký

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  despicable /dɪspˈɪkəbəl/
  ohavný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  despicable /dɪspˈɪkəbəl/
  bídný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  despicable /dɪspˈɪkəbəl/
  abscheulich, verabscheuenswürdig, verabscheuenswert, verachtenswert, schändlich 
     Synonyms: contemptible, nefarious, odious
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  despicable /dɪspˈɪkəbəl/
  nichtswürdig, abscheulich, heillos  [veraltet]
     Synonym: worthless
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  despicable /dɪspˈɪkəbəl/
  
  ποταπός, αξιοκαταφρόνητος

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  despicable //dɪˈspɪkəbəl// //ˈdɛspɪkəbəl// 
  halveksittava, kurja
  deserving to be despised

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  despicable /dɪspˈɪkəbəl/ 
  1. घृणित
        "He  would do something as despicable as murder."

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  despicable /dɪspˈɪkəbəl/
  1. megvetendô
  2. alávaló
  3. vacak
  4. megvetésre méltó
  5. hitvány
  6. aljas

From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-ind ]

  despicable //dɪˈspɪkəbəl// //ˈdɛspɪkəbəl// 
  hina, keji, tercela
  deserving to be despised

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  despicable //dɪˈspɪkəbəl// //ˈdɛspɪkəbəl// 
  卑しい, 卑劣, 汚い
  deserving to be despised

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  despicable /dɪˈspɪkəbəl/ 
    podły

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  despicable /dɪspˈɪkəbəl/
  mesquinho

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  despicable //dɪˈspɪkəbəl// //ˈdɛspɪkəbəl// 
  avskyvärd
  deserving to be despised

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  despicable /dɪspˈɪkəbəl/
  1. adi, alçak, değersiz, küçümsenen. despicably  alçakça.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/dɪˈspɪkəbəɫ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  136 Moby Thesaurus words for "despicable":
     abhorrent, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base,
     beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blameworthy,
     brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crude, crummy,
     debased, degraded, deplorable, depraved, detestable, dire, dirty,
     disgraceful, disgusting, disreputable, dreadful, egregious,
     enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul,
     fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, grievous, gross, hateful,
     heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious, infamous,
     lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen,
     malodorous, mangy, mean, measly, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal,
     miasmic, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious,
     noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene,
     odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, petty, pitiable,
     pitiful, poky, poor, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent,
     reprehensible, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten,
     rubbishy, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy,
     scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shameless, shocking,
     shoddy, sickening, small, sordid, sorry, squalid, stinking,
     terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent,
     two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, ugly, unclean,
     unmentionable, valueless, vile, villainous, woeful, worst,
     worthless, wretched
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 可鄙的,卑劣的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 可鄙的,卑劣的

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