Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Disrespect |
DisrespectNoun1. An expression of lack of respect. 2. A disrespectful mental attitude. 3. A manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous. Verb1. Show a lack of respect for. 2. Have little or no respect for; hold in contempt. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disrespect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: DisrespectSynonyms: contempt (n), discourtesy (n), disesteem (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: respect (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contempt | Look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at; (unimportance); set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one;s fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise"; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at; (be disrespectful). |
Detraction | Fling dirt; (disrespect); anathematize; dip the pen in gall, view in a bad light. |
Discourtesy | Disrespect; procacity, impudence: barbarism, barbarity; misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret_, brusquerie; vulgarity,. |
Disrespect | Verb: hold in disrespect; (despise); misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve; be disrespectful; Adjective:, be discourteous; treat with disrespect;Noun: set down, put down, browbeat. |
Noun: disrespect, disesteem, disestimation; disparagement; (dispraise), (detraction). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disrespect |
| English words defined with "disrespect": blasphemy ♦ cold-shoulder, contempt, contempt of court, criminal contempt ♦ Disreverence ♦ flip ♦ impudent, insolent ♦ Misesteem ♦ scorn, slight, snotty-nosed ♦ Unrespect. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disrespect": Greenlandman's Galley ♦ The old man. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "disrespect": Disreverence ♦ Unrespect. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Look, no disrespect, Rosemary, but I'm not a Dinotopian, and I don't want to become one, okay? (Dinotopia; writing credit: James Gurney; Simon Moore) The hard work of so many, sacrificed by the disrespect of few. (Varsity Blues; writing credit: W. Peter Iliff) | |
Lyrics | Any man disrespect, good as gone (Feelin' So Good; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) I love Black women always and disrespect ain't the way (Hip-Hop Hooray; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) I bring wrath to those who disrespect me like a dame (U.N.I.T.Y.; performing artist: Queen Latifah) Nah dem my people nah love wouldn't disrespect (Warning; performing artist: The Notorious B.I.G.) If you disrespect anybody that you run in to ("Respect Yourself"; performing artist: The Staple Singers) | |
Clever | True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Music |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She must indeed become accustomed to disrespect as she had to poverty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | Laws against antigovernment propaganda, graffiti, and disrespect of officials carry penalties of between 3 months and 1 year in prison. (references) |
Macedonia | The law also states that religious activities "shall not violate the public peace and order, and shall not disrespect the religious feelings and other freedoms and rights" of persons who are not members of that particular religion. (references) | |
Panama | The Government and public figures make frequent use of libel and disrespect for authority laws to confront and attempt to intimidate journalists whom they allege are "irresponsible." There is an active and often adversarial press and a broad range of print and electronic media outlets, including newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, and domestic and foreign cable stations. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cuba | Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina, the president of the organization, received a 6-year sentence for allegedly causing a public disturbance and disrespect. (references) |
Cuba | In February 2000, a court had sentenced Biscet to 3 years in prison for disrespect, creating a public disturbance, and encouraging others to violate the law. (references) | |
Cuba | Chaviano is the former president of the National Council for Civil Rights in Cuba and received a 15-year prison sentence in 1994 on charges of espionage and disrespect. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Disrespect" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.40% of the time. "Disrespect" is used about 87 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.4% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.3% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.3% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 87 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "disrespect": show disrespect ♦ treat with disrespect. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disrespect | 22 |
no disrespect | 4 |
adult disrespect teenage towards | 4 |
disrespect no sister souljah | 3 |
disrespect in workplace | 2 |
disrespect nco | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "disrespect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | panjerëzi (discourtesy), nuk kam respekt, mungesë respekti (impiety), mosrespektim (non-observance), harbutëri (discourtesy, impolicy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا إحترام (flippancy), قلة إحترام (contempt), إستهتار (irreverence, profanation), إزدراء (contempt, contumely, disdain, disfavor, disfavour, pride, scorn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неуважение (contempt, irreverence), непочтителност (impiety, irreverence, ribaldry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 謾 (deceive, neglect, slight), 不恭 (Disrespectful, Disrespectfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neúcta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | عدم رعایت (Disregard), اهانت (Baffle, Contempt, Disdain, Impertinence, Insolence, Offense), بی حرمتی (Affront, Violence), بی احترامی (Disrepute, Insolence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | halveksiminen (contempt, disdain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | manque de respect, manque d'égards, irrespect, irrévérence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | respektlosigkeit (disrespectfulness, impiety, irreverence), nichtachtung (lack of regard, non-observance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έλλειψη σεβασμού (disregard), ανευλάβεια (irreverence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פחיתות ערך (inferiority), פ'יע" בכבו" (affront, insult, lese majesty), זלזול (contempt, derision, disparagement, disregard, flippancy, irreverence, negligence, scorn), חוסר כבו" (irreverence), חוסר "רך ארץ (impoliteness), חוסר ימוס (bad manners, discourtesy, impoliteness, incivility, rudeness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tiszteletlenség (irreverence, lack of respect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kurang hormat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | villania (roughness, rude action, rudeness), mancanza di rispetto, irriverenza (irreverence, profanity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 失敬 (acting impolitely, impertinence, impoliteness, rudeness, saying goodbye, stealing), 不遜 (arrogance, insolence), 不敬 (blasphemy, impiety, irreverence, profanity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しっけい (acting impolitely, impertinence, impoliteness, rudeness, saying goodbye, stealing), ふそ" (arrogance, insolence), ふけい (agnate, blasphemy, castration, guardians, impiety, irreverence, parents and older brothers, policewoman, prefectural police, profanity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불경. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meearrym (impertinence, impiety, slight), leodaghey (decrease, degrade, depreciate, detract, diminish, diminution; detractor; cheap, diminution; detractor; cheap morally, dislike, disparage, disparagement, drop, dull; reduction, impair, impairment, mitigate, mitigation, offset, reduce, remission, subtract, undervalue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | mangel på aktelse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isrespectday desrespeito (irreverent, slight), desrespeitar, descrédito (attaint, discredit, dishonor, dishonour, disparaging, disrepute, obloquy, reproach), rudeza (abruptness, acrimony, asperity, rough, rudeness, rusticity). (various references) lipsã de respect. (various references) неуважение (contempt, impiety). (various references) mi-mhodh (bad manners). (various references) omalovažavati (disdain, slight, underestimate, vilify), nepoštovanje (irreverence), ne poštovati (disesteem). (various references) falta de respeto (indignation). (various references) vanvördnad (irreverence), sidovördnad (irreverence), ringaktning (contempt, despise, disdain, slight), respektlöshet (impiety), ohövlighet (discourtesy, impolicy, incivility). (various references) saymamak (bar, count out, disallow, disregard, leave out of account, not to count, not to take into account, overlook, take no account of), saygısızlık etmek (disesteem, disregard, slight), saygısızlık (defiance, discourtesy, flippancy, impertinence, impiety, impudence, inconsiderateness, indignity, insolence, irreverence, liberty, sauciness, slight), kabalık etmek, kabalık (abruptness, asperity, barbarism, barbarity, boorishness, brusqueness, coarseness, crassness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, earthiness, gall, gothicism, gruffness, harshness, impolite behaviour, impoliteness, incivility, indelicacy, inelegance, loutishness, rankness, roughness, rudeness, rusticity, shortness, vulgarism, vulgarity), hürmet etmemek. (various references) ставитися зневажливо (outbrave), неповага (disesteem). (various references) anfri (disgrace), amharchu (dishonor), amarch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inreverentia, inreverentiam, neglegentia, neglegentiam, neglegentias. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "disrespect": disrespectabilities, disrespectability, disrespectable, disrespected, disrespectful, disrespectfully, disrespectfulness, disrespectfulnesses, disrespecting, disrespects. (additional references) | |
| |
"Disrespect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disrepect. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disrespect" (pronounced di'sruspe"kt) |
| 7 | -r u s p e" k t | respect. |
| 6 | -u s p e" k t | suspect. |
| 5 | -s p e" k t | expect, inspect, reinspect. |
| 3 | -e" k t | affect, bedecked, checked, collect, confect, connect, correct, decked, deflect, deject, detect, direct, disaffect, disconnect, disinfect, dissect, effect, eject, elect, erect, incorrect, indirect, infect, inflect, inject, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, necked, neglect, overprotect, perfect, protect, rechecked, recollect, reconnect, redirect, reelect, reflect, reject, resurrect, sect, select, subject, trekked, unchecked, wecht, wrecked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: depicters, persisted, precisest, tricepses. | |
-2 letters: crepiest, crispest, decrepit, depicter, descries, desertic, despiser, despites, diesters, discepts, discreet, discrete, disperse, editress, precised, precises, precited, predicts, preedits, presides, priested, receipts, resisted, respects, respited, respites, scepters, sceptred, sceptres, scripted, sidestep, sistered, specters, spectres. | |
-3 letters: cerises, cerites, cesspit, credits, cresset, crested, crisped, deceits, decries, deicers, depicts, depress, deserts. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-p-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: disrespects. | |
+2 letters: copresidents, disrespected. | |
+3 letters: disrespectful, disrespecting. | |
+4 letters: disrespectable, productiveness, redescriptions. | |
+5 letters: descriptiveness, disrespectfully, electrodeposits. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 72 65 73 70 65 63 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... .-. . ... .--. . -.-. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s r e s p e c t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0072 0065 0073 0070 0065 0063 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758584718582716986 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
