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Main Entry: contempt
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disdain, disrespect

Synonyms:

antipathy, audacity, aversion, condescension, contumely, defiance, derision, despisal, despisement, despite, disesteem, disregard, distaste, hatred, indignity, malice, mockery, neglect, recalcitrance, repugnance, ridicule, scorn, slight, snobbery, stubbornness
Notes: contempt is a more engaged, more involved feeling of disapproval than disdain

Antonyms:

admiration, affection, approbation, approval, endorsement, love, regard, respect, sanction
Main Entry: contempt
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: state of disgrace

Synonyms:

discredit, disesteem, disfavor, dishonor, disrepute, humiliation, ignominy, infamy, insignificancy, opprobrium, shame, stigma

Antonyms:

endorsement, regard, respect
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Contempt.
Category: 2. Moral sentiments

Synonyms:

-nouns
contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt; despisal, despiciency; despisement; vilipendency, contumely; slight, sneer, spurn, by-word; despect., contemptuousness; scornful eye; smile of contempt; derision (disrespect)., [State of being despised] despisedness.
-verbs
despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by (neglect)., look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at (unimportance) [more]; set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one's fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise" [Pope]; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at (be disrespectful)., point the finger of scorn, hold up to scorn, laugh to scorn; scout, hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at., turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon; tread upon, trample upon, trample under foot; spurn, kick; fling to the winds (repudiate); send away with a flea in the ear.
-adjectives
contemptuous; disdainful, scornful; withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier; derisive., contemptible, despicable; pitiable; pitiful (unimportant); despised; downtrodden; unenvied.
-adverbs
contemptuously.
-phrases
"a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn" [Paradise Lost]; "I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman" [Julius Caesar].

Antonyms:

respect
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Main Entry: defiance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disobedience, disregard

Synonyms:

affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, lip, muster*, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, unruliness

Antonyms:

acquiescence, obedience, regard, respect, submission, subordination
Main Entry: derision
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insult, disrespect

Synonyms:

Bronx cheer, backhanded compliment, brickbat, butt*, comeback, contempt, contumely, crack, dig*, disdain, disparagement, dump*, jab, jest, joke, laughingstock, laughter, mockery, object of ridicule, parting shot, pilgarlic, put-down, raillery, ridicule, satire, scoffing, scorn, slam*, slap, sneering

Antonyms:

adulation, commendation, compliment, flattery, praise
Main Entry: disdain
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hate; indifference

Synonyms:

antipathy, arrogance, aversion, contempt, contumely, derision, despisal, despisement, despite, dislike, disparagement, hatred, haughtiness, hauteur, insolence, loftiness, pride, ridicule, scorn, sneering, snobbishness, superbity, superciliousness
Notes: contempt is a more engaged, more involved feeling of disapproval than disdain

Antonyms:

admiration, esteem, favor, like, love, praise, respect
Main Entry: disgrace
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: state of shame; bad reputation

Synonyms:

abasement, abuse, baseness, black eye, blemish, blur, brand, comedown, contempt, contumely, corruption, culpability, debasement, debasing, defamation, degradation, derision, disbarment, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, dishonor, disrepute, disrespect, humbling, humiliation, ignominy, ill repute, infamy, ingloriousness, meanness, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pollution, prostitution, put-down, reproach, scandal, scorn, slander, slight, slur, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, turpitude, venality

Antonyms:

esteem, exaltation, honor, respect
Main Entry: disparagement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: strong criticism; detraction

Synonyms:

aspersion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, blame, calumny, censure, condemnation, contempt, contumely, debasement, degradation, denunciation, depreciation, derision, derogation, discredit, disdain, impairment, lessening, lie, prejudice, reproach, ridicule, scandal, scorn, slander, tale, underestimation

Antonyms:

approval, commendation, compliment, flattery, praise, sanction
Main Entry: disregard
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ignoring

Synonyms:

apathy, brush-off, contempt, disdain, disesteem, disfavor, disinterest, disrespect, forgetting, heedlessness, inadvertence, inattention, indifference, insouciance, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, neglect, neglecting, negligence, oblivion, omission, omitting, overlooking, oversight, scorn, slight, slighting, the cold shoulder, unconcern, unmindfulness

Antonyms:

attention, esteem, honor, note, regard, respect
Main Entry: disrespect
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: disregard, rudeness toward someone

Synonyms:

boldness, coarseness, contempt, discourtesy, dishonor, flippancy, hardihood, impertinence, impiety, impoliteness, impudence, incivility, insolence, insolency, insolentness, irreverence, lack of respect, sacrilege, unmannerliness

Antonyms:

civility, esteem, honor, regard, respect, reverence
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