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Definition of Contemptible
1. Adjective. Deserving of contempt or scorn.
Also: Ignoble, Unworthy
Derivative terms: Contemptibility
Antonyms: Estimable
Definition of Contemptible
1. a. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.
Definition of Contemptible
1. Adjective. deserving contempt ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contemptible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contemptible
Literary usage of Contemptible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Despised by all, I now begin to grow contemptible even to myself. Goldsmith,
Good-natured Man, ... Contemptuous : as, to have a contemptible opinion of one. ..."
2. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1873)
"I do not mock, nor lives there such a villain, That can do anything contemptible
To you; but I do kneel, because it is An action very fit and reverent In ..."
3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1822)
"All Sublunary Things are contemptible, and of no Value. THE things of this world,
though their vanity, which swells and blows them up, seems to extend and ..."
4. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... all the rest loathsome, contemptible, and odious to all that look upon her.'
Her language, we arc further informed, ia only 'the hoggish Dutch ough, ..."
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