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What is the adjective for detesting?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs detest and detestate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

detestable
  1. Stimulating disgust or detestation; offensive; shocking.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. despicable, contemptible, ignominious, base, vile, execrable, odious, repulsive, hateful, loathsome, low, mean, paltry, repugnant, sordid, abhorrent, heinous, reprehensible, revolting, wretched, abominable, awful, detested, dirty, execrated, horrible, horrid, nasty, offensive, repellent, sorry, currish, despised, dishonourable, dishonorable, distasteful, ignoble, lousy, snide, abhorred, abominated, accursed, atrocious, disgusting, godawful, hated, loathed, obnoxious, outrageous, shocking … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “As a loyal servant of the crown, he had been honor-bound to rid the country of a detestable tyrant who had perverted French royal institutions.”
      “Nick Stahl does a good job portraying Bobby as a vicious, detestable bully.”
      “Allen's characters, both the admirable ones and the detestable ones, are intensely alive, and we know this by their distinctive voices.”
detested
  1. simple past tense and past participle of detest
  2. Synonyms:
      3. did not like, abhorred, despised, disfavored, disliked, loathed, disapproved of, had a dislike for, had a distaste for, had an aversion to, hated, execrated, abominated, disrelished, disdained, felt distaste for, felt disgust for, disliked intensely, had it in for, had no use for, felt aversion towards, regarded with disgust, rejected, repudiated, felt repugnance towards, felt animosity to, felt hostility towards, felt aversion to, downed on, felt repugnance toward, shuddered at, felt disgust towards, found intolerable, felt aversion toward, felt hostility toward, felt hostility to, recoiled from, shrunk from, shrank from … more
detesting
  1. present participle of detest
  2. Synonyms:
      3. despising, abhorring, hating, loathing, execrating, disliking, abominating, disrelishing, disdaining, rejecting, repudiating, recoiling from, shrinking from, finding intolerable, shuddering at, regarding with disgust, having an aversion to, having it in for, feeling repugnance towards, feeling aversion to, disliking intensely, feeling aversion towards, feeling hostility to, feeling disgust for, feeling distaste for, downing on, feeling animosity to, feeling disgust towards, feeling hostility towards, feeling aversion toward, feeling hostility toward, feeling repugnance toward, having no use for, scorning, having a horror of, having a strong aversion to, regarding with repugnance, dreading, reviling, fearing, feeling repelled by, feeling hostile to, feeling revulsion to, spurning, refusing, declining, revolting, disliking greatly, feeling repugnance, finding disgusting … more
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