English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English despisen, from Old French despis-, stem of despire, from Latin dēspicere, present active infinitive of dēspiciō (“I look down upon, despise, scorn”), from dē (“down”) + speciō (“I look at, behold”).
Pronunciation[edit]
despise (third-person singular simple present despises, present participle despising, simple past and past participle despised)
- To regard with contempt or scorn.
- To disregard or ignore.
Synonyms[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to regard with contempt or scorn
- Afrikaans: verag
- Arabic: اِحْتَقَرَ (iḥtaqara)
- Belarusian: пагарджаць impf (pahardžácʹ)
- Bulgarian: презирам (bg) impf (prezirám)
- Catalan: menysprear (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鄙薄 (zh) (bǐbó), 鄙夷 (zh) (bǐyí), 蔑視 (zh), 蔑视 (zh) (mièshì), 藐視 (zh), 藐视 (zh) (miǎoshì), 輕視 (zh), 轻视 (zh) (qīngshì)
- Czech: pohrdat impf, opovrhovat (cs) impf
- Dalmatian: despreziur
- Dutch: verachten (nl)
- Esperanto: abomeni (eo)
- Finnish: halveksia (fi), halveksua (fi)
- French: mépriser (fr), dédaigner (fr)
- German: verachten (de)
- Hindi: उपेक्षा करना (upekṣā karnā)
- Hungarian: lenéz (hu)
|
|
- Italian: disprezzare (it)
- Japanese: 蔑む (ja) (sagesumu), 見下す (mikudasu), 軽蔑する (ja) (keibetsu suru), 嫌悪する (ja) (ken'o suru)
- Korean: 경멸하다 (ko) (gyeongmyeol-hada), 멸시하다 (ko) (myeolsi-hada)
- Latin: despicio, contemno
- Luxembourgish: veruechten, mepriséieren
- Maori: whakahāwea, whakatakao, whakaparahako, whakakurīmōri
- Polish: gardzić (pl) impf, pogardzać (pl) impf
- Portuguese: desprezar (pt)
- Russian: презира́ть (ru) impf (prezirátʹ), презре́ть (ru) pf (prezrétʹ)
- Spanish: desdeñar (es)
- Swahili: dharau (sw)
- Swedish: förakta (sv)
- Turkish: hor görmek (tr), aşağılamak (tr), küçümsemek (tr)
- Ukrainian: зневажати impf (znevažáty)
- Volapük: nestümön (vo)
- Yiddish: פֿײַנט האָבן (faynt hobn), פֿאַראַכטן (farakhtn)
|
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
