disesteem

1. 1.

   the state in which esteem has been lost

   Antonymsesteem

   Broaderdishonor

1. 1.

   have little or no respect for; hold in contempt

   Synonymsdisrespect

   Antonymsesteem

   Broadersee

   Narrowerundervalue

Other forms of disesteem

plural

disesteems·

past tense

disesteemed·

present participle

disesteeming·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disesteem

What does disesteem mean?

disesteem means "the state in which esteem has been lost". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disesteem?

disesteem has 3 syllables: di-se-steem. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for disesteem?

Close synonyms include disrespect. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of disesteem?

The recorded antonyms are esteem, esteem.

Is disesteem a common word?

disesteem is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.