English > reprehensible: 1 sense > adjective 1Meaning | Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure. |
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Example | "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" |
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Synonyms | condemnable, criminal, deplorable, vicious |
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Broader | wrong | contrary to conscience or morality or law |
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Spanish | censurable, condenable, deplorable, reprensible, vergonzoso |
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Catalan | censurable, condemnable, reprensible, vergonyós |
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Nouns | reprehensibility | being reprehensible |
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Adverbs | reprehensibly | in a manner or to a degree deserving blame or censure |
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reprehensively | in a shameful manner |
Verbs | reprehend | express strong disapproval of |
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