disdain
pronunciation
How to pronounce disdain in British English:
UK [dɪsˈdeɪn]
How to pronounce disdain in American English:
US [dɪsˈdeɪn]
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- Noun:
- lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
- a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
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- Verb:
- look down on with disdain
- reject with contempt
Word Origin
- disdain
- disdain: [14] Disdain comes via Old French desdeigner from *disdignāre, a Vulgar Latin alteration of Latin dēdignāri ‘scorn’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- ‘un-, not’ and dignāre ‘consider worthy’ (source of English deign [13]).=> dainty, deign, dignity
- disdain (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French desdeignier "disdain, scorn, refuse, repudiate," from des- "do the opposite of" (see dis-) + deignier "treat as worthy" (see deign). Related: Disdained; disdaining.
- disdain (n.)
- mid-14c., desdegne "scorn, contempt," earlier dedeyne "offended dignity" (c. 1300), from Old French desdeigne, from desdeignier (see disdain (v.)). Sometimes in early Modern English shortened to sdain, sdainful. Related: disdainful; disdainfully.
Example
- 1. Sometimes there is an outright disdain for work nowadays .
- 2. Emerging economies may dread the imf ; developed ones disdain it .
- 3. Ordinary iraqis frequently express bored disdain for their ineffective , corrupt government .
- 4. Disdain for american-educated students has come only recently .
- 5. Messrs. buffett and munger made clear their complete disdain for the use of higher-order mathematics in finance .