Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Execrable \Ex"e*cra*ble\, a. [L. execrabilis, exsecrabilis: cf.
   F. ex['e]crable. See {Execrate}.]
   Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable;
   abominable; as, an execrable wretch. ``Execrable pride.''
   --Hooker. -- {Ex"e*cra*ble*ness}, n. -- {Ex"e*cra*bly}, adv.