reprehensible

See also: répréhensible, and repréhensible

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend +‎ -ible.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛpɹɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛpɹəˈhɛnsəb(ə)l/

Adjective

reprehensible (comparative more reprehensible, superlative most reprehensible)

1. Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
2. Deserving of reprehension.
   • 1998, Greg Morrow, Dylan Verheul, “Sandman 14”, in The Sandman Annotations‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 July 2008:

     Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind and the reprehensible sequel Scarlett.

   • 2019, Gary Younge, “Shamima Begum has a right to British citizenship, whether you like it or not”, in Guardian.‎^[2]:

     We, as a society, should in some way be held accountable for how a 15-year-old girl went from watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians to joining a terrorist cult in a war zone. Begum was 15 when she did a reprehensible thing; Javid is 49. What’s his excuse?

   • 2022 August 24, Bruce Healey, “Wartime tunnel crash: a miraculous escape”, in RAIL, number 964, page 52:

     At the inquest, the conduct of guard Austin was described as reprehensible.

Synonyms

• at fault, deplorable, remiss

Related terms

• reprehensibility
• reprehend
• reprehensive
• irreprehensible
• reprehension

Translations

blameworthy

• Dutch: afkeurenswaardig (nl), schuldig (nl)
• Esperanto: kondamninda
• Finnish: moitittava (fi), tuomittava (fi)
• French: blâmable (fr) m or f, coupable (fr) m or f
• German: verwerflich (de)
• Greek: αξιόμεμπτος (el) m (axiómemptos), κατακριτέος (el) m (katakritéos), αξιοκατάκριτος (el) (axiokatákritos)
• Icelandic: ámælisverður
• Norwegian: klanderverdig (no)
• Polish: naganny (pl)
• Portuguese: repreensível (pt)
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} досто́йный осужде́ния (dostójnyj osuždénija) , предосуди́тельный (ru) (predosudítelʹnyj)
• Spanish: reprehensible (es)
• Swedish: klandervärd (sv), förkastlig (sv)

deserving of reprehension

• Bulgarian: осъдителен (bg) m (osǎditelen)
• Catalan: reprensible
• Czech: zavrženíhodný (cs) m
• Dutch: verwerpelijk (nl), afkeurenswaardig (nl)
• Esperanto: kondamninda
• French: répréhensible (fr) m or f, condamnable (fr) m or f
• German: tadelnswert, rügenswert, kritikwürdig (de)
• Greek: αξιόμεμπτος (el) m (axiómemptos), κατακριτέος (el) m (katakritéos)
• Hungarian: elítélendő (hu)
• Polish: naganny (pl), szpetny (pl)
• Portuguese: repreensível (pt)
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} досто́йный порица́ния (dostójnyj poricánija) , ^{(please verify)} досто́йный осужде́ния (dostójnyj osuždénija)
• Spanish: reprehensible (es)

Noun

reprehensible (plural reprehensibles)

1. A reprehensible person; a villain.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin reprehēnsibilis, from Latin reprehendō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /repɾeenˈsible/ [re.pɾe.ẽnˈsi.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: re‧pre‧hen‧si‧ble

Adjective

reprehensible m or f (masculine and feminine plural reprehensibles)

1. reprehensible

   Synonym: reprensible

Related terms

• reprehender
• reprehensión

 

Further reading

• “reprehensible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28