LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
verbfirst/second-declension participle

dēspiciendus

dēspiciendus (feminine dēspicienda, neuter dēspiciendum)

Meaning

  1. participlethat which is “to be X-ed”, “deserving to be X-ed”, “fit to be X-ed”, “worth X-ing”... looked down upon, despised, disdained
    ‘haec loca dēsertās vīdī sine moenibus herbās: pāscēbat sparsās utrāque rīpā bovēs, et quem nunc gentēs Tiberim nōruntque timentque,“I saw these regions, forsaken grasslands, without city walls: And each river bank was pasture for scattered cattle; and [I], that Tiber which nations now know and fear, back then was fit to be looked down on even by livestock.” (Personified voice of the River Tiber; see also Tiber.)8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.639–642

Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.

dēspiciendus adj.
P. of despicio, contemptible , Ta.

Origins

Future passive participle or gerundive of dēspiciō.

Quick answers

What does dēspiciendus mean in Latin?
dēspiciendus, a verb, means “that which is “to be X-ed”, “deserving to be X-ed”, “fit to be X-ed”, “worth X-ing”... looked down upon, despised, disdained”.
What are the principal parts of dēspiciendus?
dēspiciendus, dēspicienda, dēspiciendum (first/second-declension participle).