Contemn

Definition: Contemn

Contemn

Verb

1. Look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "contemn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Synonyms: Contemn

Contempt

Verb: despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by; (neglect).

Detraction

Verb: detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap; belittle; sneer at; (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back.

Crosswords: Contemn

Albanian

shpërfill (disregard, neglect, pass by, slight), përbuz (despise, disdain, spit upon), përçmoj (cheapen, despise, disdain, disesteem, flout). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отнасям се с пренебрежение към (thumb smb.'s. nose at smb.), презирам (bar, despise, disdain, execrate, misprise, misprize, scorn, sneer). (various references)

Greek 

περιφρονώ (deride, despise, disdain, look down on, scorn, snub). (various references)

Hebrew 

לבוז (despise, disdain, flout, mock at, scorn). (various references)

Hungarian

megvet (despise, disdain, look down on, misprize, scorn, to contemn, to despise, to detest, to disdain, to nauseate, to scorn, to spurn). (various references)

Italian

disprezzare (despise, disdain, dispise, flout, look down on, scorn). (various references)

Pig Latin

ontemncay

Portuguese

menosprezar (crab, despise, lessen, look down upon, make little of, misprise, misprize, mock, scorn, underestimate, underrate, undervalue), desprezar (despise, disdain, disesteem, flout, forget, laugh off, look down, look down on, misprise, misprize, scorn, sneeze, undervalue), desdenhar (disdain, disregard, look down on, misprise, misprize, scorn). (various references)

Romanian

dispreţui (brave, despise, disdain, dispraise, hold cheap, hold smb. in contempt, look down on, pooh pooh, scorn, set at naught, slight, spurn, trample, turn up one's nose at, undervalue). (various references)

Russian 

презирать (despise, scorned, scorns, think scorn of). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prezirati (despise, detest, disdain, look down, misprise, misprize, scorn, spit upon). (various references)

Swedish

förakta (despise, disdain, disregard, scorn). (various references)

Turkish

küçümsemek (belittle, defy, depreciate, despise, disdain, flout, look down on, make light of, minimize, pooh pooh, scorn, sneer, underestimate, underrate, undervalue), hor görmek (despise, disesteem, disparage, look down on, look down one's nose at, misprize, scorn, underestimate), adamdan saymamak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "contemn": contemned, contemner, contemners, contemning, contemnor, contemnors, contemns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Contemn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: contan, contemp, contemt, contenu, conteyne, fontem, noctem. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: nocent.

-2 letters: cento, comet, comte, conte, monte, nomen, nonce, nonet, tenon, tonne.

-3 letters: cent, come, cone, conn, cote, meno, mote, neon, nome, none, note, omen, once, tome, tone.

-4 letters: con, cot, eon, men, met, moc, mon, mot, net, nom, not, one, ten, toe, tom, ton.

-5 letters: em, en, et, me, mo, ne, no, oe, om.

+1 letter: contemns.

+2 letters: component, condiment, contemned, contemner, contemnor, nonmetric.

+3 letters: cantonment, commenting, components, condiments, conferment, contemners, contemning, contemnors, counterman, countermen, countrymen, malcontent, misconnect, monstrance, nonmimetic, omnificent, omniscient.

+4 letters: bicomponent, cantonments, cementation, centimorgan, commandment, concealment, concernment, condimental, conferments, confinement, congealment, consignment, containment, contaminate, contentment, controlment, countermand, countermine, documenting, enforcement, incompetent, malcontents, misconnects, monogenetic, monstrances, necromantic, nomenclator, noncomputer, noncustomer, nondomestic, nonemphatic, nonmagnetic, nonmetallic, nonmetrical, nonsystemic, omnipotence, recombinant, uncommonest.