contemn
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
look down on with disdain
He despises the people he has to work for
Types & categories
- hate hypernym
- look down on hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | scorn |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | despite |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | despisal |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sneerer |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | hate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | look down on |