Despisable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Despisable is an adjective meaning (archaic) Worthy to be despised.
Meaning
(archaic) Worthy to be despised.
Example Sentences
[…] Meekness, Condescension, Forbearance, are so far from being despisable Qualities in our Sex, that they are the Glory of it.
the Jewish Nation, though scattered through the whole World, are not therefore a despisable people, but as a Plant worthy to be planted in the whole world
c. 1530, uncredited translator, The Dialoges of Creatures Moralysed, Dialogue 110, And forasmoche as we be so Noble of owr natyf kynde / let vs pursewe such beastis as be vyle & despisable.
1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822, Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 297, “but now he is nothing more than despisable, or what’s the same thing, a pedlar without house, pack, or money.”
Word Forms
- despiseable
Synonyms for despisable
Depending on context, synonyms include contemptible, despicable.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vituperious, contemptable, abhorrible, disdainous, disdaineful, abhorrable.
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