BITCHIN' Synonyms: 174 Similar and Opposite Words

bitchin'

adjective

Definition of bitchin'

slang

as in damnable

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Adjective

Drawing the line isn’t easy, and the damnable thing is that standards change from generation to generation.

— Daniel Foster, National Review, 23 Jan. 2025

Definition of damnable

Adjective

In some versions, she’s described as a morally deplorable witch taking part in the abuse of runaway slaves who was ultimately burned for her misdeeds and buried near the cemetery.

— Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
That work, her work, shined a light on the deplorable conditions experienced by the workers harvesting our food in California.

— Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of deplorable

Adjective

Soon after he was elected, the Half Moon Bay shooting occurred in January 2023, killing eight farmworkers and exposing detestable housing conditions for the county’s immigrant farmworkers.

— Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
No matter how detestable the overthrown governments may be, precedents show that regime changes lead neither to democracy nor to peace, but to chaos, civil war and dictatorship.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2026

Definition of detestable

Adjective

After three suboptimal innings, Glasnow settled down in a trust-building exercise of an outing against the Giants and their triple A-caliber lineup.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Less likely, perhaps, not least because even a suboptimal outcome can be dressed up as a correct decision if three of the five panellists feel the VAR was right not to get involved.

— Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of suboptimal

Adjective

In Obsession’s most horrifying sequence, the audience senses something awful is about to unfold several beats before the frenzy of blunt-force head trauma actually takes place on screen.

— Chris Lee, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
As Philip awaits trial at home, Lucy processes the shock, too smart to believe this is all some awful misunderstanding.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of awful

Adjective

This version, though, is brutal, his voice acerbic and his guitar serrated.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2026
And through eight games this season, those two words have defined the majority of the third-year wing’s experience on the court for the Chicago Bulls, who are 1-7 after a brutal trio of road losses in the last week.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of brutal

Adjective

But what an imaginative launching pad to interrogate the nature of greatness, the unsatisfactory acknowledgements of one’s own mediocrity, the seemingly unjust parceling out of genius from God.

— Doni Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2026
For City Councilmember Ysabel Jurado, who represents Boyle Heights, the investigation’s conclusion was unsatisfactory.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of unsatisfactory

Adjective

In his stories, Poe dedicated himself to writing about the dark side of human experience — our most primal fears and most unspeakable secrets.

— Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2026
Pamela Voorhees’s appeal was always as an unlikely killer, a devoted mother driven to unspeakable violence by a personal tragedy.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of unspeakable

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