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kickable

kickable

1 8.1
So annoying that people want to hit it
  • adjective
  • /ˈkɪkəbl/
  • Offensive
: merece una patada (informal, ofensivo)
  • His behavior during the meeting was kickable, leaving everyone frustrated and wanting to confront him.

Examples

  • The team's performance was so poor that the coach described several players as kickable after the match.

  • Loathsome, inexplicable creatures Good-for-nothing, kickable creatures

  • After his insulting comments, she felt he was truly kickable and couldn't hold back her anger.

Synonyms

punchable
vskickable
  • Offensive
1 8.2

A person or face that makes others want to hit them

expresses strong anger or contempt figuratively rather than literal violence
so punchable
vskickable
  • Offensive
9.9

Very annoying in a way that makes you want to hit someone

expresses anger or contempt but with milder intensity than this phrase

Antonyms

461 2.8

Deserving respect because of good or honest qualities

20 1.8

Respected and looked up to by many people

How Despicable

hateful
111 3.6
kickable
  • Offensive
1 8.1
contemptible
  • Offensive
14 7.4
offensive
  • Offensive
276 4.0
annoying
415 1.0

Surface Forms

kickable positive

Morphology

kickable = kick (semi-transparent) = kick + able

Regular derivation from 'kick' but used evaluatively/figuratively ('deserving to be kicked'), which requires pragmatic inference.

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the figurative use of kickable is to think of kick plus -able as 'worthy of a kick'. This makes the word easy to use when you want to say someone or something makes you very angry or shows strong contempt.