disdainとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English disdeynen, from Old French desdeignier (modern French dédaigner).

発音

• enPR: dĭs-dān', IPA^(key): /dɪsˈdeɪn/, /dɪˈsteɪn/
  • 韻: -eɪn

名詞

disdain (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.

   The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away.

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:

     He that with ſhepheards and a litle ſpoyle,
     Durſt in diſdaine of wrong and tyrannie,
     Defend his freedome gainſt a Monarchie:
     What will he doe ſupported by a king?

   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.

   • 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK):

     Everything that could go right for England did although they never felt lucky and they chuckled at Kane’s third that ricocheted off his heel while he was looking the other way. Somewhere in the Moscow outskirts one could only guess at the grand disdain Cristiano Ronaldo will have felt at being supplanted as the tournament’s top scorer in that manner.

2. (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     Most loathsom, filthy, foul, and full of vile Disdain.

3. (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:

     The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun ; Exempt from envy , but not from disdain

同意語

• abomination
• condescension
• contempt
• despisal
• scorn
• See also Thesaurus:contempt

反意語

• adoration
• admiration
• honor
• respect
• reverence

派生語

• disdainable
• disdainful

動詞

disdain (三人称単数 現在形 disdains, 現在分詞 disdaining, 過去形および過去分詞形 disdained)

1. (transitive) To regard (someone または something) with strong contempt.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Samuel 17:42:

     When the Philistine […] saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth.

   • 1880, Edward Henry Palmer (translator), The Qur'an, 1880, "Women", verse 170

     The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, is but the apostle of God and His Word, […] The Messiah doth surely not disdain to be a servant of God, nor do the angels who are nigh to Him; and whosoever disdains His service and is too proud, He will gather them altogether to Himself. But as for those who believe and do what is right, He will pay their hire and will give increase to them of His grace. But as for those who disdain and are too proud, He will punish them with a grievous woe, and they shall not find for them other than God a patron or a help.

   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, Matthew ]:

     When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe, the marveylles that he dyd [...], they desdayned, and sayde unto hym: hearest thou what these saye?

同意語

• abominate
• contemn
• See also Thesaurus:despise

反意語

• adore
• admire
• honor
• respect
• revere

アナグラム

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