Contemn

//kənˈtɛm//

Synonyms for "contemn" (91 found)

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Related word relations

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9 relation types

More general

2 entries

Antonyms

4 entries

Synonyms

1 entries

Related terms

8 entries

derived

3 entries

etymologically related_to

1 entries

has context

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manner of

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related to

10 entries

Translations

37 translations across 18 languages.

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Armenian

1 entries
  • արհամարհել verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • презирам verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • пренебрегвам verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Catalan

2 entries
  • desdenyar verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • menyspreuar verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 鄙夷 verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • 鄙薄 verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Finnish

2 entries
  • halveksia verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • halveksua verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

French

2 entries
  • contemner verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • mépriser verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

German

1 entries
  • verachten verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • בז verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Hungarian

3 entries
  • lenéz verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • megvet verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • ócsárol verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Italian

2 entries
  • disdegnare verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • disprezzare verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Japanese

4 entries
  • 蔑む verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • 見下す verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • 軽侮する verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • 軽蔑する verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Māori

4 entries
  • tokoreko verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • whakamanioro verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • whakapu(w)heto verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • whakareko verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • desdenhar verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • desprezar verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Romanian

1 entries
  • a disprețui verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Russian

3 entries
  • попира́ть verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • презира́ть verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • пренебрега́ть verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Spanish

2 entries
  • despreciar verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • menospreciar verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Swedish

1 entries
  • förakta verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Turkish

2 entries
  • hor görmek verb (to treat or regard with contempt)
  • küçümsemek verb (to treat or regard with contempt)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

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The subject of the following History [...] is the unhappy Lives, and untimely Deaths, of that Unfortunate English King Edward the Second, and his two Favourites Gaveston and Spencer; for his immoderate love to whom, (Says Dr. Heylin) he was hated by the Nobles, and contemned by the Commons.

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The change which had so suddenly elevated Charles Stuart to the throne of his ancestors, and, from a poor, wandering, and powerless exile, made him one of Europe's most powerful monarchs, had taken the various courts where he had sojourned, neglected, if not contemned, completely by surprise.

Source: wiktionary

I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.

Source: wiktionary

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