Usually means: Hated intensely; viewed with contempt.
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  1. despised: Merriam-Webster
  2. despised: Collins English Dictionary
  3. despised: Vocabulary.com
  4. Despised, despised: Wordnik
  5. despised: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. despised: Wiktionary
  7. Despised, despised: Dictionary.com
  8. despised: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Despised: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Despised: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. despised: Rhymezone
  12. Despised: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. despised: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. despised: FreeDictionary.org
  15. despised: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. despised: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despised: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Hated; viewed with scorn.

Similar:
scorned, hated, unloved, detested, abhorred, hateful, abhorrent, hatredful, hatesome, enemied, more...

Opposite:
beloved

Types:
cockroach, spider, roach, beetle, termite, cricket, grasshopper, centipede, more...

Phrases:
Despised Icon, despised roman emperor, despised me, despised person, despised roman despot, more...

Adjectives:
first, most, poor, own, few, long, last, old, provincial, worst, general

Colors:
    dark gray,     bile green,     sickly yellow,     blood red,     putrid purple, more...



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Similar:
scorned, hated, unloved, detested, abhorred, hateful, abhorrent, hatredful, hatesome, enemied, more...

Opposite:
beloved

Types:
cockroach, spider, roach, beetle, termite, cricket, grasshopper, centipede, more...

Phrases:
Despised Icon, despised roman emperor, despised me, despised person, despised roman despot, more...

Adjectives:
first, most, poor, own, few, long, last, old, provincial, worst, general

Colors:
    dark gray,     bile green,     sickly yellow,     blood red,     putrid purple, more...



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