adj.
- Deserving of execration; hateful.
- Extremely inferior; very bad: an execrable meal.
[Middle English, from Latin execrābilis, from execrārī, exsecrārī, to execrate. See execrate.]
execrableness ex'e·cra·ble·ness n.execrably ex'e·cra·bly adv.
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