noun, verb
noun [U,sing.] ~ (for sb/sth) the feeling that sb/sth is not good enough to deserve your respect or attention
SYNCONTEMPT:
to treat sb with disdain * a disdain for the law * He turned his head away in disdain.
verb (formal)
1 [VN] to think that sb/sth is not good enough to deserve your respect:
She disdained his offer of help. * Immigrants accept the jobs disdained by the local workforce.
2 [Vtoinf] to refuse to do sth because you think that you are too important to do it:
He disdained to turn to his son for advice.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for disdain is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does disdain appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — disdain appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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