Antonyms for disdain
dɪsˈdeɪn, dɪˈsteɪndis·dain

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1. disdainnoun

   Synonyms:
   scorn, condescension, contempt, contemn

2. disdainverb

   To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.

   The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away.

   Synonyms:
   condescension, scorn, contempt, contemn

3. disdainverb

   To be indignant or offended.

   Synonyms:
   contemn

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1. disdain

   Haughtiness thinks highly of itself and poorly of others. Arrogance claims much for itself and concedes little to others. Pride is an absorbing sense of one's own greatness; haughtiness feels one's own superiority to others; disdain sees contemptuously the inferiority of others to oneself. Presumption claims place or privilege above one's right; pride deems nothing too high. Insolence is open and rude expression of contempt and hostility, generally from an inferior to a superior, as from a servant to a master or mistress. In the presence of superiors overweening pride manifests itself in presumption or insolence; in the presence of inferiors, or those supposed to be inferior, pride manifests itself by arrogance, disdain, haughtiness, superciliousness, or in either case often by cold reserve. (See RESERVE under MODESTY.) Pride is too self-satisfied to care for praise; vanity intensely craves admiration and applause. Superciliousness, as if by the uplifted eyebrow, as its etymology suggests (Latin supercilium, eyebrow, from super, over and cilium, eyelid), silently manifests mingled haughtiness and disdain. Assumption quietly takes for granted superiority and privilege which others would be slow to concede. Conceit and vanity are associated with weakness, pride with strength. Conceit may be founded upon nothing; pride is founded upon something that one is, or has, or has done; vanity, too, is commonly founded on something real, tho far slighter than would afford foundation for pride. Vanity is eager for admiration and praise, is elated if they are rendered, and pained if they are withheld, and seeks them; pride could never solicit admiration or praise. Conceit is somewhat stronger than self-conceit. Self-conceit is ridiculous; conceit is offensive. Self-respect is a thoroughly worthy feeling; self-esteem is a more generous estimate of one's own character and abilities than the rest of the world are ready to allow. Vainglory is more pompous and boastful than vanity. Compare EGOTISM; OSTENTATION.

   Antonyms:
   humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty, self-abasement, self-distrust

   Synonyms:
   arrogance, assumption, conceit, haughtiness, insolence, ostentation, presumption, pride, reserve, self-complacency, self-conceit, self-esteem, self-exaltation, self-respect, superciliousness, vainglory, vanity

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1. disdainnoun

   Antonyms:
   respect, reverence, admiration, respectfulness, considerateness, humility

   Synonyms:
   contempt, obscure, haughtiness, disregard, superciliousness

Matched Categories

1. • Refuse

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 3 votes

1. contempt, disdain, scorn, despitenoun

   lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

   "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

   Synonyms:
   patronage, scorn, contempt, condescension, despite, disrespect

2. condescension, disdain, patronageverb

   a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient

   Synonyms:
   trade, clientele, condescension, patronage, business, backup, backing, superciliousness, scorn, condescendingness, contempt, disdainfulness, championship, despite

3. contemn, despise, scorn, disdainverb

   look down on with disdain

   "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"

   Synonyms:
   contemn, spurn, reject, pooh-pooh, turn down, scorn, freeze off, despise

4. reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn downverb

   reject with contempt

   "She spurned his advances"

   Synonyms:
   freeze off, eliminate, rule out, lower, resist, despise, winnow out, contemn, decline, lour, spurn, pass up, pooh-pooh, reject, disapprove, scorn, turn away, refuse, turn down

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1. disdainnoun

   Synonyms:
   scorn, contumely, superciliousness, contempt

How to use disdain in a sentence?

1. Fran Lebowitz:

   The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive-you are leaking.

2. Nile Gardiner:

   [Kerry’s remarks are] a reflection of a broader disdain for Britain that runs through the Obama presidency, without a doubt the Obama administration has not treated Britain with the kind of respect America’s closest friend and ally deserves to be treated.

3. Michael McAdams:

   The difference is ... Pruitt had an absolute disdain for Washington, pruitt went behind closed doors and took an authoritative position. That's not how Andy will operate.

4. Chuck Perko:

   I disdain what's going on over there, but my company is not Abramovich's company in my eyes -- and so it helps me sleep at night to know that we've got so much separation from the larger picture.

5. Albert Schweitzer:

   The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

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