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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1243/
- Published: 2023-06-25T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-27T18:30:54.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

The word for today is…

reprehensible (adjective):

: worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reprehensible?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : It may be easy to grasp that reprehensible is all about blame, but the word’s origins tell a grabbier story. The word comes from the Latin reprehendere (literally “to hold back”), a combination of re- and prehendere, meaning “to grasp.” Prehendere is at the root of other grasp-related words, among them apprehend, used when grabbing hold of bad guys, comprehend, used when it’s concepts that are grasped, and prehensile, used to describe anatomical features—for example, a monkey’s tail or an elephant’s trunk—that grasp especially by wrapping around.

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