Meanings
comparative more reprehensible · superlative most reprehensible
- Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
Synonyms: at fault, remiss, to blame, at fault, blameworthy, censurable, culpable, guilty
- Deserving of reprehension.
At the inquest, the conduct of guard Austin was described as reprehensible.
2022 August 24, Bruce Healey, “Wartime tunnel crash: a miraculous escape”, in RAIL, number 964, page 522 more examples
Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind and the reprehensible sequel Scarlett.
1998, Greg Morrow, Dylan Verheul, “Sandman 14”, in The Sandman Annotations, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2008We, 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?
2019, Gary Younge, “Shamima Begum has a right to British citizenship, whether you like it or not”, in Guardian.Synonyms: damnable, deplorable, scornworthy, abject, filthy, base, beggarly, blameworthy
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveBlameworthy, censurable, guilty.
adjectiveDeserving of reprehension.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivebringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinreprehendo
- Late Latinreprehensibilis
- Englishreprehensible
Borrowed from Late Latin reprehensibilis, from Latin reprehendo; equivalent to reprehend + -ible.
More words from Late Latin, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian осъдителен
- осъдителен (osăditelen)deserving of reprehension
Catalan reprensible
- reprensibledeserving of reprehension
Czech odsouzeníhodný, hanebný
- odsouzeníhodnýblameworthy
- hanebnýblameworthy
- zavrženíhodnýdeserving of reprehension
- hanebnýdeserving of reprehension
Dutch afkeurenswaardig, schuldig
- afkeurenswaardigblameworthy
- schuldigblameworthy
- verwerpelijkdeserving of reprehension
- afkeurenswaardigdeserving of reprehension
Esperanto kondamninda, kondamninda
- kondamnindablameworthy
- kondamnindadeserving of reprehension
Finnish moitittava, tuomittava
- moitittavablameworthy
- tuomittavablameworthy
French blâmable, coupable
- blâmableblameworthy
- coupableblameworthy
- répréhensibledeserving of reprehension
- condamnabledeserving of reprehension
German verwerflich, tadelnswert
- verwerflichblameworthy
- tadelnswertdeserving of reprehension
- rügenswertdeserving of reprehension
- kritikwürdigdeserving of reprehension
Greek αξιόμεμπτος, κατακριτέος
- αξιόμεμπτος (axiómemptos)blameworthy
- κατακριτέος (katakritéos)blameworthy
- αξιοκατάκριτος (axiokatákritos)blameworthy
- αξιόμεμπτος (axiómemptos)deserving of reprehension
- κατακριτέος (katakritéos)deserving of reprehension
Hungarian elítélendő
- elítélendődeserving of reprehension
Icelandic ámælisverður
- ámælisverðurblameworthy
Norwegian klanderverdig
- klanderverdigblameworthy
Polish naganny, naganny
- nagannyblameworthy
- nagannydeserving of reprehension
- szpetnydeserving of reprehension
Portuguese repreensível, repreensível
- repreensívelblameworthy
- repreensíveldeserving of reprehension
Russian предосуди́тельный
- предосуди́тельный (predosudítelʹnyj)blameworthy
Spanish reprehensible, reprensible
- reprehensibleblameworthy
- reprensibleblameworthy
- reprehensibledeserving of reprehension
- reprensibledeserving of reprehension
Swedish klandervärd, förkastlig
- klandervärdblameworthy
- förkastligblameworthy
Cite this entry
reprehensible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reprehensible
“reprehensible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reprehensible. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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