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Despicable vs Distasteful - What's the difference?

despicable | distasteful | Related terms |

Despicable is a related term of distasteful.


As adjectives the difference between despicable and distasteful

is that despicable is fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless while distasteful is having a bad or foul taste.

despicable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * mean * vile

    Antonyms

    * honorable

    References

    English words suffixed with -able

    distasteful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * distastefull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a bad or foul taste.
  • (figuratively) Unpleasant.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • Offensive.

    • Antonyms

    * pleasant, pleasing