contempt
Meaning of contempt
noun
- The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.
- The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
- Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.
Information about contempt
- It is a name.
- The plural form of contempt is: contempts.
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Hyphenation of contempt
con-tempt
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- contempt is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
contempt synonyms
Meaning disdain:
Meaning disrespect:
Meaning scorn:
Translation of contempt
- French: mépris
- German: Verachtung
- Spanish: desprecio
- Italian: disprezzo
- Portuguese: desprezo
Words that rhyme with contempt
empt, adempt, dempt, misdempt, preempt, kempt, unkempt, benempt, bynempt, nempt, unempt, coempt, dirempt, perempt, attempt, overtempt, pretempt, reattempt, retempt, supertempt, tempt, exempt, nonexempt, preexempt, unexempt
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