Detestable vs Detested - What's the difference?
detestable | detested |
(detest)
To dislike intensely; to loathe.
(obsolete) To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.
As an adjective detestable
is detestable, despicable.As a verb detested is
(detest).detestable
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "detestable" is often applied: crime, thing, practices, act, character, nature, person, conduct, villain, behavior.Derived terms
* detestablenessSee also
* hateful * abominable * loathsome * horridAnagrams
*detested
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Verb
(head)detest
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Verb
(en verb)- I detest snakes.
- Who dares think one thing, and another tell, / My heart detests him as the gates of hell. — Pope.
- The heresy of Nestorius was detested in the Eastern churches. — Fuller.
- God hath detested them with his own mouth. — Bale.