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Detestable vs Unspeakable - What's the difference?

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Detestable is a related term of unspeakable.


As adjectives the difference between detestable and unspeakable

is that detestable is detestable, despicable while unspeakable is incapable of being spoken or uttered; unutterable; ineffable; inexpressible.

detestable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.

    • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "detestable" is often applied: crime, thing, practices, act, character, nature, person, conduct, villain, behavior.

    Derived terms

    * detestableness

    Related terms

    * detest * detestability

    See also

    * hateful * abominable * loathsome * horrid

    Anagrams

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    unspeakable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incapable of being spoken or uttered; unutterable; ineffable; inexpressible.
  • * 1855-1882 , , book xv,
    • The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows.
  • Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
  • * 1916 , , A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man , ch. 3,
    • The miser will remember his hoard of gold, the robber his ill-gotten wealth, the angry and revengeful and merciless murderers their deeds of blood and violence in which they revelled, the impure and adulterous the unspeakable and filthy pleasures in which they delighted.
  • Extremely bad or objectionable.
    • an unspeakable fool
    an unspeakable play
  • * 1926 , ,
    • Yet to my horror I saw in its eaten-away and bone-revealing outlines a leering, abhorrent travesty on the human shape; and in its mouldy, disintegrating apparel an unspeakable quality that chilled me even more.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * unspeakably * unspeakableness

    References

    * * * * " unspeakable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * " unspeakable" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * * " unspeakable" at Rhymezone (Datamuse, 2006). * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) ----