Synonyms of the word

despise

• v. To regard with contempt or scorn.
• v. To disregard or ignore.

contemn

• v. (archaic) To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt.
• v. (law) To commit an offence of contempt, such as contempt of court; to unlawfully flout (e.g. a ruling).

detest

• v. (transitive) To dislike intensely; to loathe.
• v. (obsolete) To witness against; to denounce; to condemn.

disdain

• n. (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
• n. (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.
• v. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.

hate

• n. An object of hatred.
• n. Hatred.
• n. (Internet, colloquial) Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.
• v. (transitive) To dislike intensely or greatly.
• v. (intransitive) To experience hatred.
• v. (informal, originally African American Vernacular) Only used in hate on.

scorn

• v. (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
• v. (intransitive) To scoff, express contempt.
• v. (transitive) To reject, turn down.
• v. (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
• n. (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
• n. (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
• n. (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.