desdeñar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- despise verb To feel strong contempt or scorn for someone or something.
- disdain noun A feeling of contempt or scorn toward someone or something seen as beneath you.
- dismiss verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.
- scorn verb To feel or show strong contempt for someone or something.
- spurn verb To reject something or someone with contempt or disdain.
Senses
desdeñar is used for these senses in English:
- despise To regard with contempt or scorn.
- disdain (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
- dismiss (transitive) To invalidate; to treat as unworthy of serious consideration.
- scorn (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
- spurn (ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
disdain — full definition
- noun A feeling of contempt or scorn toward someone or something seen as beneath you.
- verb To treat someone or something with scorn, as not worth your attention.