Word Meanings - DISREPUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit. At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Disesteem; discredit; dishonor; disgrace.

Related words: (words related to DISREPUTE)

• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• DISCREDITABLE
  Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• REPUTATION
  The character imputed to a person in the community in which he lives. It is admissible in evidence when he puts his character in issue, or when such reputation is otherwise part of the issue of a case. 3. Specifically: Good reputation; favorable
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• DISCREDIT
  1. The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit. 2. Hence, some degree of dishonor or disesteem; ill repute; reproach; -- applied to persons
• DISHONOR
  The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn. Syn. -- Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium. (more info) deshonur, F. déshonneur; pref. des- + honor, honur, F. 1. Lack of honor;
• CENTURY
  1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. And on it said a century of prayers. Shak. 2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although
• GENERALITY
  1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from
• GENERALISSIMO
  The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• DISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute. Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs. Milton.
• BEGINNING
  1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven
• GENERALLY
  1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a
• DISGRACE
  1. The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect. Macduff lives in disgrace. Shak. 2. The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy. To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honor
• DISCREDITOR
  One who discredits.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• POSTMASTER-GENERAL
  The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.
• BRIGADIER GENERAL
  An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.
• MENDELIAN CHARACTER
  A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.