Word Meanings - CONTEMN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden. Syn. -- To despise; scorn; disdain; spurn;

Additional info about word: CONTEMN

To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden. Syn. -- To despise; scorn; disdain; spurn; slight; neglect; underrate; overlook. -- To Contemn, Despise, Scorn, Disdain. Contemn is the generic term, and is applied especially to objects, qualities, etc., which are deemed contemptible, and but rarely to individuals; to despise is to regard or treat as mean, unbecoming, or worthless; to scorn is stronger, expressing a quick, indignant contempt; disdain is still stronger, denoting either unwarrantable pride and haughtiness or an abhorrence of what is base.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTEMN)

• Commiserate
• Despise
• contemn
• pity
• compassionate
• condole
• sympathize
• Neglect Slight
• overlook
• omit
• disregard
• disesteem
• despite
• Scoff
• Sneer
• mock
• jibe
• jeer
• scout
• deride
• ridicule
• Scorn Contemn
• despise
• slight
• disdain
• sibilate
• vilipend
• spurn

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONTEMN)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to CONTEMN)

• 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.
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• 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.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• 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.
• DISDAINED
  Disdainful. Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt Of this proud king. Shak.
• SNEER
  1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. 2. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. 3. To show mirth awkwardly. Tatler. Syn.
• SCORNER
  One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion. "Great scorners of death." Spenser. Superly he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Prov. iii. 34.
• SIBILATE
  To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.
• SCORNY
  Deserving scorn; paltry.
• BESCORN
  To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.