condemnable

1. 1.

   bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

   “a criminal waste of talent”

   “a deplorable act of violence”

   “adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife”

   Synonymscriminaldeplorablereprehensiblevicious

   Similarwrong

Questions about condemnable

What does condemnable mean?

condemnable means "bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure".

How many syllables are in condemnable?

condemnable has 4 syllables: con-dem-na-ble. The stress falls on "dem".

What is another word for condemnable?

Close synonyms include criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is condemnable a common word?

condemnable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.