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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun contempt has 4 senses

contempt(n = noun.feeling) despite, disdain, scorn - lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

is a kind of dislike

Derived form adjective contemptuous₁

contempt(n = noun.attribute) disrespect - a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous;

is a kind of discourtesy, rudeness

Derived form adjective contemptuous₁

contempt(n = noun.communication) scorn - open disrespect for a person or thing;

is a kind of discourtesy, disrespect

has particulars: fleer, leer, sneer, sneer

Derived form adjective contemptuous₁

contempt(n = noun.act) - a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body;

is a kind of

disobedience

noncompliance

has particulars: contempt of congress, contempt of court

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CIDE DICTIONARY

contempt, n. [L. contemptus, fr. contemnere: cf. OF. contempt. See Contemn.].

The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn. [1913 Webster]
"Criminal contempt of public feeling." [1913 Webster]

"Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great." [1913 Webster]
The state of being despised; disgrace; shame. [1913 Webster]
"Contempt and begarry hangs upon thy back." [1913 Webster]
An act or expression denoting contempt. [1913 Webster]
"Little insults and contempts." [1913 Webster]

"The contempt and anger of his lip." [1913 Webster]
Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority. [1913 Webster]
" Contempt is in some jurisdictions extended so as to include publications reflecting injuriously on a court of justice, or commenting unfairly on pending proceedings; in other jurisdictions the courts are prohibited by statute or by the constitution from thus exercising this process."

Syn. -- Disdain; scorn; derision; mockery; contumely; neglect; disregard; slight.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

contempt, n.
1 a feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration or worthless, or deserving scorn or extreme reproach.
2 the condition of being held in contempt.
3 (in full contempt of court) disobedience to or disrespect for a court of law and its officers.

Idiom

beneath contempt utterly despicable. hold in contempt despise.

Etymology

ME f. L contemptus (as contemn)

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DEVIL DICTIONARY

contempt

n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

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THESAURUS

contempt

abhorrence, abjuration, abjurement, affront, antipathy, arrogance, aspersion, atrocity, audacity, aversion, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravado, brazenfacedness, brazenness, brickbat, bumptiousness, cheekiness, chucking, chucking out, cockiness, contemptuousness, contradiction, contumacy, contumely, cut, daring, daringness, declination, declining, defial, defiance, defying, denial, denigration, deprecation, depreciation, derision, despisal, despising, despite, disapproval, discard, disclamation, discommendation, discounting, discredit, disdain, disesteem, disfavor, disgust, dishonor, dismissal, disownment, disparagement, dispraise, disregard, disrepute, disrespectfulness, distaste, disvaluation, dump, enormity, exception, exclusion, face of brass, flippancy, flout, flouting, freshness, gibe, hate, hatred, humiliation, ignominy, ignoring, impertinence, impudence, indignity, infamy, injury, insolence, insult, jeer, jeering, loathing, mock, mockery, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, odium, offense, opprobrium, outrage, passing by, pertness, put-down, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recalcitrance, recantation, refusal, rejection, renouncement, repudiation, repugnance, repulse, ridicule, rudeness, sauciness, scoff, scorn, scouting, scurrility, shame, spurning, stubbornness, taunt, throwing out, turning out, uncomplimentary remark

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contempt

Ridicule

N ridicule, derision, sardonic smile, sardonic grin, irrision, scoffing, mockery, quiz, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage, quizzing, asteism, squib, satire, skit, quip, quib, grin, parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie, farce, caricature, buffoonery, practical joke, horseplay, scorn, contempt, derisory, derisive, mock, mocking, sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic, scurrilous, in ridicule.

Contempt

N contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt, despisal, despiciency, despisement, vilipendency, contumely, slight, sneer, spurn, by-word, despect, contemptuousness, scornful eye, smile of contempt, derision, despisedness, contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier, derisive, contemptible, despicable, pitiable, pitiful, despised, downtrodden, unenvied, unrespectable (unworthy), contemptuously, Int, a fig for, bah!, never mind!, away with!, hang it!, fiddlededee!, a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn, I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a.