condescend
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
behave in a patronizing and condescending manner
Types & categories
- act hypernym
Related & opposite
- condescendingness derivation
Sense 2 verb
do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
Types & categories
- act hypernym
Sense 3 verb
debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
I won't stoop to reading other people's mail
Types & categories
- act hypernym
Sense 4 verb
treat condescendingly
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- condescension derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | condescendingness |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | act |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | act |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | act |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | condescension |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | interact |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | stoop to |