Usually means: Contempt or scorn for something.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. disdain: Merriam-Webster
  2. disdain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disdain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disdain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disdain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disdain, disdain: Wordnik
  7. disdain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disdain: Wiktionary
  9. disdain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disdain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disdain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Disdain, disdain: Dictionary.com
  13. disdain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. disdain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Disdain (disambiguation), Disdain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Disdain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. disdain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. disdain: Rhymezone
  19. disdain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. disdain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. disdain: FreeDictionary.org
  22. disdain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. disdain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. disdain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disdain: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disdain: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Disdain: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See disdained as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.

Similar:
contempt, contemn, scorn, despise, condescension, spurn, reject, turn down, pooh-pooh, patronage, more...

Opposite:
respect, admiration, esteem

Types:
contempt, disapproval, scorn, disgust, disdainfulness, disrespect, condescension, displeasure, aversion, more...

Phrases:
with disdain, opposite of disdain, rejects with disdain, express disdain for, expression of disdain, more...

Adjectives:
such, cold, great, high, certain, haughty, proud, utter, lofty, aristocratic, much

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Similar:
contempt, contemn, scorn, despise, condescension, spurn, reject, turn down, pooh-pooh, patronage, more...

Opposite:
respect, admiration, esteem

Types:
contempt, disapproval, scorn, disgust, disdainfulness, disrespect, condescension, displeasure, aversion, more...

Phrases:
with disdain, opposite of disdain, rejects with disdain, express disdain for, expression of disdain, look of disdain, amused disdain, display disdain, annoyance disdain, shows disdain, mild disdain, more...

Adjectives:
such, cold, great, high, certain, haughty, proud, utter, lofty, aristocratic, much

Colors:
    gray,     olive,     mustard,     taupe,     khaki, more...



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