reprehensible
/ˌɹɛpɹɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/US/ˌɹɛpɹəˈhɛnsəb(ə)l/
reprehensible adjective: blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
Adjective
reprehensible (comparative more reprehensible, superlative most reprehensible)
- Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
- Synonyms:
- at fault, remiss, to blame, blameworthy, censurable, culpable, guilty, nocent
- Deserving of reprehension.
- Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind and the reprehensible sequel Scarlett.1998, Greg Morrow, Dylan Verheul, “Sandman 14”, in The Sandman Annotations, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2008
- We, as a society, should in some way be held accountable for how a 15-year-old girl went from watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians to joining a terrorist cult in a war zone. Begum was 15 when she did a reprehensible thing; Javid is 49. What’s his excuse?2019, Gary Younge, “Shamima Begum has a right to British citizenship, whether you like it or not”, in Guardian.
- Synonyms:
- damnable, deplorable, scornworthy, abject, filthy, base, beggarly, blameworthy, carrion, cheap
Noun
reprehensible (plural reprehensibles)
- A reprehensible person; a villain.
reprehensible meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
reprehensible in Bengali
- নিন্দনীয়
reprehensible in Malayalam
- disgraceful, deplorable, discreditable
- നിന്ദ്യമായ, ഗർഹണീയമായ, അപലപനീയമായ, ലജ്ജാവഹമായ, അപകീർത്തികരമായ, യശോഹര
reprehensible in Kannada
- ನಿಂದನೀಯ, ಛೀಮಾರಿ ಮಾಡಬಹುದಾದ, ಆಕ್ಷೇಪಾರ್ಹ, ನಿಂದ್ಯ, ತೆಗಳತಕ್ಕ, ಹೀಗಳೆಯತಕ್ಕ
Synonyms of reprehensible
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Forms of reprehensible
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more reprehensible |
| superlative | most reprehensible |
| Noun | |
| plural | reprehensibles |
Origin of reprehensible
Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend + -ible.
Words formed from reprehensible
Questions about reprehensible
- What does reprehensible mean?
- Reprehensible means blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
- What is reprehensible in Bengali?
- Reprehensible in Bengali is নিন্দনীয়. See Reprehensible meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is reprehensible?
- Reprehensible can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce reprehensible?
- Reprehensible is pronounced /ˌɹɛpɹɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/ (UK).
Words near reprehensible in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: reprehensible (page history and authors); reprehensible (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reprehensible (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); reprehensible (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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