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Reprehensible vs Deprehensible - What's the difference?

reprehensible | deprehensible |

As adjectives the difference between reprehensible and deprehensible

is that reprehensible is reprehensible while deprehensible is (obsolete) capable of being caught or discovered.

reprehensible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
  • Deserving of reprehension.
  • * 1998 , Greg Morrow and Dylan Verheul, '' The Sandman Annotations, Sandman 14
    • Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind'' and the reprehensible sequel ''Scarlett .

    Related terms

    * reprehensibility * reprehend * irreprehensible * reprehension

    Synonyms

    * at fault, deplorable, remiss

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reprehensible person; a villain.
    • ----

    deprehensible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Capable of being caught or discovered.
    • so deprehensible an error
    (Petty)
  • * 1655 , Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism
    • Cardan'' somewhere intimates that their approaches are deprehensible by certain ''sweet smells they cast.
    (webster)