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Synonyms for despise
dɪˈspaɪzde·spise
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
despise
Abhor is stronger than despise, implying a shuddering recoil, especially a moral recoil. "How many shun evil as inconvenient who do not abhor it as hateful."
Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xxvi, 297. [Murray's "New English Dictionary"] Detest expresses indignation, with something of contempt. Loathe implies disgust, physical or moral. We abhor a traitor, despise a coward, detest a liar. We dislike an uncivil person. We abhor cruelty, hate tyranny. We loathe a reptile or a flatterer. We abhor Milton's heroic Satan, but we can not despise him.Synonyms:
abhor, abominate, detest, dislike, hate, loathe, nauseate, scorn, shunAntonyms:
admire, approve, covet, crave, desire, enjoy, esteem, esteem, like, love, relish
Princeton's WordNet
Dictionary of English Synonymes
despiseverb
Synonyms:
contemn, scorn, spurn, disdain, scout, slight, disregard, hold in contempt, look down upon
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #3527 | hate | |
| #8574 | reject | |
| #17397 | dislike | |
| #31276 | despise | |
| #31524 | shun | |
| #34727 | scorn | |
| #37376 | despised | |
| #37610 | disdain | |
| #49384 | loathe | |
| #69016 | detest | |
| #73795 | abhor | |
| #113548 | spurn |
How to use despise in a sentence?
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system.
Some CEOs despise Washington, think it's all a gimmick, and don't see any return on the invested effort.
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.
Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.
As much as I despise him, I don't even wish my rapist would be raped while he is in prison, because nobody deserves it.
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- veragAfrikaans
- احتقرArabic
- пагарджацьBelarusian
- презирамBulgarian
- opovrhovat, pohrdatCzech
- verachtenGerman
- abomeniEsperanto
- despreciar, desdeñarSpanish
- halveksia, halveksuaFinnish
- mépriser, dédaignerFrench
- उपेक्षा करनाHindi
- lenézHungarian
- memandang rendahIndonesian
- disprezzareItalian
- 軽蔑, 軽視Japanese
- 멸시하다, 경멸하다Korean
- verachtenDutch
- pogardzać, gardzićPolish
- desprezarPortuguese
- презирать, презретьRussian
- föraktaSwedish
- dharauSwahili
- ชังThai
- hor görmek, aşağılamak, küçümsemekTurkish
- зневажатиUkrainian
- coi thườngVietnamese
- nestümönVolapük
- פאַרוויילונגYiddish
- 討厭Chinese
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