Synonyms of the word

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.

condescension

• n. The act of condescending; a manner of behaving toward others in an outwardly polite way that nevertheless…
• n. (usually uncountable, pejorative) A patronizing attitude or behavior.

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).

contempt

• n. (uncountable) The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something…
• n. The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
• n. (law) Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

depreciation

• n. The state of being depreciated.
• n. The decline in value of assets.
• n. (accounting) The measurement of the decline in value of assets. Not to be confused with impairment, which…

derogation

• n. An act which belittles; disparagement.
• n. (law) The act of derogating; the temporary or partial nullification of a law.

despise

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

despite

• n. (obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
• n. (archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
• n. Evil feeling; malice, spite.
• prep. In spite of, notwithstanding, regardless of.
• v. (obsolete) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.

detest

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

dislike

• n. An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To displease; to offend. (In third-person only.).
• v. (transitive) To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.
• v. (Internet) To give a negative review.

disparagement

• n. The act of disparaging, of belittling.

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.

patronage

• n. The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
• n. Customers collectively; clientele; business.
• n. A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
• n. (politics) Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political…
• n. Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
• n. The right of nomination to political office.
• n. (Britain, law) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
• v. (transitive) To support by being a patron of.
• v. (transitive) To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize; to patronise; to support; to keep going.

pooh-pooh

• v. (transitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision.

refuse

• adj. Discarded, rejected.
• n. (Britain) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
• v. (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
• v. (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
• v. (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
• n. (obsolete) refusal.

reject

• v. (transitive) To refuse to accept.
• v. (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
• n. Something that is rejected.
• n. (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.

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.

spurn

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
• v. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
• v. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
• n. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
• n. A kick; a blow with the foot.
• n. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
• n. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.