Usually means: Deserving intense dislike or hatred.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word detestable:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. detestable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. detestable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. detestable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. detestable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. detestable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Detestable, detestable: Wordnik
  7. detestable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. detestable: Wiktionary
  9. detestable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. detestable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. detestable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Detestable, detestable: Dictionary.com
  13. Detestable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. detestable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. detestable: Rhymezone
  16. detestable, detestable, dtestable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. detestable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. detestable: Free Dictionary
  19. detestable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. detestable: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detestable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detestable: Encyclopedia

(Note: See detestableness as well.)

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adjective:  Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.

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