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单词 detestable
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detestableadj.

/dɪˈtɛstəb(ə)l/
Etymology: < French détestable (1380 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter, < Latin dētestābilis , < dētestārī : see -ble suffix. Originally deteˈstable; in Spenser and Shakespeare ˈdetestable.
1. To be detested; intensely hateful or odious; execrable, abominable.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adjective]
loatha700
eileOE
andsetec1000
wlatfulc1230
aloathedc1275
wlatsomea1300
unhonest13..
wlata1325
hideousc1330
abominable1340
hatefula1382
hatesomea1382
abominablec1384
odiousa1387
fulsomec1390
accursedc1400
hatousc1400
rankc1400
hateablec1425
odiblec1425
ugsomec1425
wretchedc1430
loathsomec1440
loathfula1450
noisomea1450
abhominal1477
detestable1477
loathy1481
loathing?a1513
oppugnanta1513
irksome1513
hateworthy1548
abhorful1565
ugged1570
detestine1575
ulcerous1577
opposite1578
scandalous1592
offensive1594
obscene1597
ulcered1602
dirtya1616
abhorrent1628
toady1628
envious1630
repugnant1633
nauseating1645
nauseous1646
obnoxious1646
detestful1654
reluctant1663
horrid1666
abnoxious1682
devilish1692
invidious1710
repellent1776
repellant1780
sickening1789
toadish1822
carrion1826
ugging1839
cussed1853
repugnant1879
jerky1944
vomitous1952
barfy1957
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 100 The terrible dragon cast vpon me a gobet of the moste detestable infeccion that euer was.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xiv. 331 What saist thou, fole destestable?
a1500 Liber Pluscardensis (Marchm.) (1877) I. 387 To mak ws till oure Makare detestabile.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Kiiv Their presumpcion is to god moste detestable & hatefull.
1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Bvv The byshop of Rome, and all his detestable enormities.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A6v That detestable sight.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. i. 94 Oh detestable villaine, callst thou that trimming.
1702 W. Penn in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 132 Busy at that detestable work, privateering.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlix. 188 That detestable transaction..ended in the death of Mr. Yorke.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. App. xxii. 409 The detestable ornamentation of the Alhambra.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xii. 89 Along edges of detestable granular ice.
2. quasi-adv. Detestably.
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1610 Histrio-mastix ii. 108 O detestable good!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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