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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

inexecrable

Pronunciation / Transliteration: i-nek-se-kra-ble

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Inexecrable/ɪnˈɛk.sɪ.krə.bəl/
adjectiveCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #45000 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Su comportamiento fue verdaderamente inexecrable."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Too bad or dreadful to be adequately cursed or condemned; utterly detestable beyond measure.

    "The tyrant's inexecrable crimes shocked the entire international community."
  2. 2

    Incapable of being executed or brought to a conclusion.

    "The convoluted legal agreement proved inexecrable, leaving both parties at an impasse."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin prefix 'in-' (meaning 'not') combined with 'execrabilis' (detestable or cursed), stemming from the verb 'execrari' (to curse). Entering English in the late 16th century, it literally denotes something that cannot be sufficiently cursed or condemned, though it has occasionally been misused or reinterpreted as meaning incapable of being made worse or truly excellent.

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