contemptible

English

Alternative forms

contemptable

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin contemptibilis

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kənˈtɛmptəbəl/

Adjective

contemptible (comparative more contemptible, superlative most contemptible)

deserving contempt
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 2:
  Miss Ward's match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield […]

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deserving contempt

Bulgarian: достоен за презрение (dostoen za prezrenie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 可鄙 (zh) (kěbǐ)
Czech: opovrženíhodný (cs)
Finnish: halveksittava, alhainen (fi)
French: méprisable (fr)
Galician: desprezábel (gl) m or f
German: verachtenswürdig, verachtenswert
Hebrew: בזוי‎ m (bazui), בזויה‎ f (bzuia)
Hungarian: megvetendő (hu)
Ido: desestiminda (io)

Irish: drochmheasúil, péisteogach, dímhigneach, míolach, neamhshuimiúil, péistiúil, sramach, suaibhreosach, suarach
Italian: disprezzabile, disdicevole (it), riprovevole (it), biasimabile
Japanese: 蔑むべき (ja) (sagesumu beki)
Latin: contemptibilis
Persian: خوار‎ (fa) (xâr)
Polish: zasługujący na pogardę
Portuguese: desprezível (pt)
Romanian: disprețuibil m, demn de dispreț m
Russian: презре́нный (ru) (prezrénnyj)
Spanish: despreciable (es)

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