Synonyms for contemptible
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Ignoble — deserving contempt
ignoble, despicable, pitiful, miserable, vile, pathetic, wretched, unworthy, abject, pitiable, worthless, loathsome, petty, disreputable, odious, mean, reprehensible, disgraceful, shameful, low, ignominious, deplorable
Definitions
- adj. 1
Deserving contempt.
Related words
- Word family
- contemptibility contemptibleness contemptibly contemptuous
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Despicable is stronger than contemptible, as despise is stronger than contemn. A man is contemptible for mean qualities which distinguish his character, especially those which show him to be weak, foolish, or worthless.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- pathetic The education in that institute is simply pathetic.
- pitiful The pitiful tale fetched tears from the girl.
- unworthy Boris deemed Melissa unworthy of such a responsibility.
- ignoble Jealousy is, to me, the most ignoble human feeling there is.
By length
- 3 letters
- low1
- 4 letters
- mean1, vile1
- 5 letters
- petty2
- 6 letters
- abject2, odious3
- 7 letters
- pitiful3, ignoble3
- 8 letters
- pathetic3, shameful2, wretched2, unworthy3, pitiable4
- 9 letters
- miserable4, worthless2, loathsome2
- 10 letters
- despicable4, deplorable4
- 11 letters
- disgraceful3, ignominious5
- 12 letters
- disreputable5
- 13 letters
- reprehensible5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (petty2 = 2 syllables).