look down on

1. 1.

   regard with contempt

   “the new neighbor looks down on us because our house is very modest”

   Antonymsadmire

   Broadercontemn

Questions about look down on

What does look down on mean?

look down on means "regard with contempt".

What is the opposite of look down on?

The recorded antonyms are admire.

Is look down on a common word?

look down on 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.