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contemptible

adj
/kənˈtɛmptəbəl/

Etymology

From Middle English contemptible, from Latin contemptibilis.

  1. derived from contemptibilis
  2. inherited from contemptible

Definitions

  1. Deserving contempt.

    • But a Devil came in juſt in the God-ſpeed, and told them; Gentlemen Philoſophers, (ſays he) if you vvould knovv the VVretched'ſt, and moſt contemptible thing in the VVorld; It is an Alchymiſt: […]
    • Miss Ward's match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at contemptible. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at contemptible. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at contemptible

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA