Word Meanings - CONTEMPTIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke. 2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. 3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.

Additional info about word: CONTEMPTIBLE

1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke. 2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. 3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous. If she should make tender of her love, 't is very possible he 'll scorn it; for the man . . . hath a contemptible spirit. Shak. Syn. -- Despicable; abject; vile; mean; base; paltry; worthless; sorry; pitiful; scurrile. See Contemptuous. -- Contemptible, Despicable, Pitiful, Paltry. Despicable is stronger than contemptible, as despise is stronger than contemn. It implies keen disapprobation, with a mixture of anger. A man is despicable chiefly for low actions which mark his life, such as servility, baseness, or mean adulation. A man is contemptible for mean qualities which distinguish his character, especially those which show him to be weak, foolish, or worthless. Treachery is despicable, egotism is contemptible. Pitiful and paltry are applied to cases which are beneath anger, and are simply contemptible in a high degree.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTEMPTIBLE)

• Foolish
• Senseless
• idiotic
• crazed
• shallow
• weak
• silly
• injudicious
• irrational
• absurd
• contemptible
• objectionable
• witless
• brainless
• imbecile
• preposterous
• ridiculous
• nonsensical
• simple
• Mean
• Common
• low
• base
• spiritless
• dishonorable
• despicable
• beggarly
• sordid
• vulgar
• niggardly
• vile
• Paltry
• shabby
• shuffling
• trifling
• prevaricating
• shifty
• pitiable
• vi e
• worthless
• trashy
• Petty
• Small
• mean
• paltry
• ignoble
• narrow
• trivial
• Ridiculous
• Laughable
• ludicrous
• droll
• grotesque

Related words: (words related to CONTEMPTIBLE)

• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• IRRATIONAL
  Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• DROLLIST
  A droll. Glanvill.
• PREVARICATOR
  A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution. 3. One who betrays or abuses a trust. Prynne. (more info) 1. One who prevaricates.
• IGNOBLENESS
  State or quality of being ignoble.
• NONSENSICAL
  Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• ABSURDNESS
  Absurdity.
• DROLLISH
  Somewhat droll. Sterne.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• LAUGHABLE
  Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene. Syn. -- Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll, and Ludicrous. -- Laugh"a*ble*ness, n. -- Laugh"a*bly, adv.
• TRASHY
  Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
• SORDID
  1. Filthy; foul; dirty. A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous;
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.