Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to despise
Participle: despised
Gerund: despising
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | despise |
| you | despise |
| he;she;it | despises |
| we | despise |
| you | despise |
| they | despise |
Perfect
| I | have despised |
| you | have despised |
| he;she;it | has despised |
| we | have despised |
| you | have despised |
| they | have despised |
Past
| I | despised |
| you | despised |
| he;she;it | despised |
| we | despised |
| you | despised |
| they | despised |
Pluperfect
| I | had despised |
| you | had despised |
| he;she;it | had despised |
| we | had despised |
| you | had despised |
| they | had despised |
Future
| I | will despise |
| you | will despise |
| he;she;it | will despise |
| we | will despise |
| you | will despise |
| they | will despise |
Future Perfect
| I | will have despised |
| you | will have despised |
| he;she;it | will have despised |
| we | will have despised |
| you | will have despised |
| they | will have despised |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | despise |
| you | despise |
| he;she;it | despise |
| we | despise |
| you | despise |
| they | despise |
Perfect
| I | have despised |
| you | have despised |
| he;she;it | have despised |
| we | have despised |
| you | have despised |
| they | have despised |
Imperfect
| I | despised |
| you | despised |
| he;she;it | despised |
| we | despised |
| you | despised |
| they | despised |
Pluperfect
| I | had despised |
| you | had despised |
| he;she;it | had despised |
| we | had despised |
| you | had despised |
| they | had despised |
Conditional
Present
| I | would despise |
| you | would despise |
| he;she;it | would despise |
| we | would despise |
| you | would despise |
| they | would despise |
Perfect
| I | would have despised |
| you | would have despised |
| he;she;it | would have despised |
| we | would have despised |
| you | would have despised |
| they | would have despised |
Imperative
| you | despise |
| we | Let's despise |
| you | despise |
Verbs conjugated like 'despise'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'despise'
despike,
despine,
despite,
despose,
dispise,
bespice,
demise,
denoise,
depose,
desire,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to feel contempt
- scorn
- to dislike intensely; to feel strong hostility towards.
- can't stand, can't stand the sight of, disrelish, execrate, hate, resent
- To treat or regard with contempt.
- contemn
- to regard with contempt or scorn
- despect, disrespect
- To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
- disdain
- To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
- scorn
- To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
- spurn
- hate
- abominate, condemn, abhor, disdain, contemn, scorn, spurn
Antonyms
- to consider to be precious
- treasure
- to regard with contempt or scorn
- admire, appreciate, cherish, esteem, respect, revere, treasure, value
- to hold in esteem; to have respect for
- offend, revere
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English despisen, from Old French despis-, stem of despire, from Latin dēspicere (“to look down upon, despise, scorn”), from dē (“down”) + speciō (“to look at”). Displaced native Old English forsēon. See: Latin '
dēspiciō'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] woman, with garments torn and frozen, with one shoe gone, and the stocking torn away from the cut and bleeding foot, was laid back in a deadly swoon upon two chairs. There was the impress of the despised race on her face, yet none could help feeling its mournful and pathetic beauty, while its stony sharpness, its cold, fixed, deathly aspect, struck a solemn chill over him. He drew his breath short, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] of God. Then understood I their end. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places, thou castedst them down to destruction. As a dream when one awaketh, so, oh Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. Nevertheless I am continually with thee; thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me by thy counsel, and afterwards receive me to glory. It is good for me to draw near [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Well, I won't go to any more of their cursed nonsense, Tom, ” said St. Clare; “ on my honor, I wo n't. I don't know why I haven't stopped long ago. I 've always despised _it_, and myself for it,—so now, Tom, wipe up your eyes, and go about your errands. Come, come, ” he added, “ no blessings. I 'm not so wonderfully good, now, ” he said, as he gently pushed Tom to [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] freedom of opinion, and presumes to think for himself, and speak for himself, without humble reference to a censorship which, for its rampant ignorance and base dishonesty, he utterly loathes and despises in his heart; when those who most acutely feel its infamy and the reproach it casts upon the nation, and who most denounce it to each other, dare to set their heels upon, and crush it openly, in the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Satisfied ! Was I not just telling you I despised it ? But, then, to come back to this point,—we were on this liberation business. I don't think my feelings about slavery are peculiar. I find many men who, in their hearts, think of it just as I do. [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Topsy was at first despised and contemned by the upper servants. They soon found reason to alter their opinion. It was very soon discovered that whoever cast an indignity on Topsy was sure to meet with some inconvenient [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] work. He saw, at a glance, that a native adroitness and handiness made the task to her an easier one than it proved to many. She picked very fast and very clean, and with an air of scorn, as if she despised both the work and the disgrace and humiliation of the circumstances in which she was placed.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] patient prayers. Born of a hard-tempered sire, on whom that gentle woman had wasted a world of unvalued love, Legree had followed in the steps of his father. Boisterous, unruly, and tyrannical, he despised all her counsel, and would none of her reproof; and, at an early age, broke from her, to seek his fortunes at sea. He never came home but once, after; and then, his mother, with the yearning of a [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)