different between despicable vs despect

English

Etymology

1550s, from Late Latin despicabilis, from Latin d?spicor, a variant of d?spici? (“I despise”), from de (“down”) + speci? (“I look at, behold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??sp?k?b?l/, /?d?sp?k?b?l/

Adjective

despicable (comparative more despicable, superlative most despicable)

1. Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean

   Synonyms: vile, evil, mean, contemptible

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:despicable

Antonyms

• honorable

Translations

Noun

despicable (plural despicables)

1. A wretched or wicked person.

References

English

Etymology

From Middle English despect (“contempt, spite”), from Latin d?spectus (“a looking down upon, contempt”), from d?spicere (“to look down upon, despise, scorn”), from d? (“down”) + specere (“to look at, behold”), equivalent to de- +? -spect

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??sp?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt
• Hyphenation: de?spect

Noun

despect (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Contempt, derision.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:contempt

Antonyms

• respect

Related terms

• despection
• despective
• despicable
• despise

See also

• despite

Verb

despect (third-person singular simple present despects, present participle despecting, simple past and past participle despected)

1. (archaic) To hold in contempt, to despise, to look down on, to scorn.
   • c. 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy Composed by Ben: Iohnson. [...] London, Printed M.DC.XL [1640], in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. Containing these Playes, viz. 1 Bartholomew Fayre. 2 The Staple of Newes. 3 The Divell is an Asse, volume II, London: Printed for Richard Meighen, published 1640, OCLC 221338962, pages 72 and 79:

     [Act II, scene ii, page 72] Nay, but with patience, Sir, we that are Officers / Mu?t 'quire the ?peciall markes, and all the tokens / Of the de?pected parties, or perhaps – el?e, / Be nere the nere of our purpo?e in 'prehending 'hem.

     [Act III, scene i, page 79] Faith Go??ip Turfe, you have, you ?ay, Remi??ion / To comprehend all ?uch, as are di?pected: / Now, would I make another privie ?earch / Through this Towne, and then you have zearch'd two towns.

Further reading

• despect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911..
• despect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913..

Middle English

Etymology

See English despect.

Adjective

despect

1. Humble, looked down upon, lowly.

Noun

despect

1. Despect (“contempt, derision”).

References

• “despect, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2016-05-11.
• “despect, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2016-05-11.