Execrable vs Unspeakable - What's the difference?
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Of the poorest quality.
Hateful.
* 1779 , Jefferson, letter to Patrick Henry written on March 27
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Incapable of being spoken or uttered; unutterable; ineffable; inexpressible.
* 1855-1882 , , book xv,
Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
* 1916 , , A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man , ch. 3,
Extremely bad or objectionable.
* 1926 , ,
Execrable is a related term of unspeakable.
As adjectives the difference between execrable and unspeakable
is that execrable is loathsome, detestable while unspeakable is incapable of being spoken or uttered; unutterable; ineffable; inexpressible.execrable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But is an enemy so execrable , that, though in captivity, his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "execrable" is often applied: taste, road, crime, murder, thing.Synonyms
* abhorrent * abominable * atrocious * deplorable * despicable * detestable * disgusting * foul * heinous * horrific * loathsome * low * monstrous * repulsive * revolting * sickening * vile * wretchedunspeakable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows.
- 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.
- an unspeakable fool
- an unspeakable play
- 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 alsoDerived terms
* unspeakably * unspeakablenessReferences
* * * * "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) ----