Word Meanings - DESPISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who

Additional info about word: DESPISE

To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Jowett . Syn. -- To contemn; scorn; disdain; slight; undervalue. See Contemn. (more info) despicere, despectum, to look down upon, despise; de- + spicere,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESPISE)

• Abhor
• Hate
• abominate
• detest
• loathe
• despise
• dislike
• eschew
• nauseate
• Commiserate
• Despise
• contemn
• pity
• compassionate
• condole
• sympathize
• Contemn
• disdain
• deride
• vilify
• slight
• disregard
• scorn
• Scorn Contemn
• sibilate
• vilipend
• spurn
• scout

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESPISE)

• Honor
• regard
• esteem
• venerate
• respect
• applaud
• salute
• Regard
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to DESPISE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CONDOLER
  One who condoles.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• DETESTABLY
  In a detestable manner.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• ESCHEW
  1. To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of. They must not only eschew evil, but do good. Bp. Beveridge. 2. To escape from; to avoid. He who obeys, destruction shall eschew. Sandys.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• DISDAINISHLY
  Disdainfully. Vives.
• SYMPATHIZE
  1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. Buckminster. 2. To feel in consequence
• DISDAINFUL
  Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. From these Turning disdainful to an equal good. Akenside. -- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• ABHORRENCY
  Abhorrence. Locke.
• SPURN-WATER
  A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• BESCORN
  To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• MISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.