Contemptible

What do we mean by contemptible?

Deserving of contempt; despicable. adjective

Contemptuous. adjective

Worthy of contempt; meriting scorn or disdain; despicable; mean: said of persons or things.

Not worthy of consideration; inconsiderable; paltry; worthless: generally used with a negative.

Held in contempt; despised; neglected.

Contemptuous: as, to have a contemptible opinion of one.

Synonyms Contemptible, Despicable, Paltry, Pitiful, abject, base, worthless, sorry, low. Contemptible is unworthy of notice, deserving of scorn, for littleness or meanness; it is generally not so strong as despicable, which always involves the idea of great baseness: as, a contemptible trick; despicable treachery. Paltry and pitiful are applied to things which from their insignificance hardly deserve to be considered at all: as, a paltry excuse; a sum of money pitifully small. In pitiful, the pity seems to apply to the one foolish enough to offer, etc., the pitiful tiling. Pitiful is often applied to persons. What is paltry is of no consequence; what is pitiful is absurdly unequal to what it should be. See pitiful.

Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. adjective

Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. adjective

Insolent; scornful; contemptuous. adjective

Deserving contempt adjective

Deserving of contempt or scorn adjective

Deserving contempt

Words that are spelled similarly to contemptible:
contemptible, contemptibly, conceptible, contemplable, contemptibles.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word contemptible:
rasputin, person, israeli, character, attempted, your, ever, man, figure, you, word, our, woman, little.

Words that rhyme with contemptible:
temptable.

Adjectives that are often used to describe contemptible:
least, most, contemptuous, poor, same, common, earthly, whole, last, american, general, highest, own, rational.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective contemptible:
thing, creature, character, person, figure, man, opinion, creatures, army, people, weakness, fellow, wretch, things, light, enemy, idea, being, coward, animal, act, means, object, position, conduct, piece, trick, scoundrel, race, struggle, cowardice, foe, minority, force, vanity, meprisable, characters, manner, meanness, cur, spirit, action, hypocrite, kind, fellows, persons, fool, body, beings, prince, business, sort, lot, appearance, lie, wretches, affair, poet, enemies, practice, set, notion, strength, sum, equivocation, performance, nonsense, speech, dreams, worm, puppy, rival, folly, instruments, farce, pride, fraud, motives, dog, qualities, actions, cowards, progress, advantage.

Words that sound like contemptible:
contemptible, contemptibly, contestable, containable, attemptable, untamable, untreatable, susceptible, snappable, statable.