DISAPPROVAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disapproval mean? 

• DISAPPROVAL (noun)
  The noun DISAPPROVAL has 4 senses:

1. a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing

2. the expression of disapproval

3. an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

4. the act of disapproving or condemning

  Familiarity information: DISAPPROVAL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISAPPROVAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("disapproval" is a kind of...):

dislike (a feeling of aversion or antipathy)

Antonym:

approval (a feeling of liking something or someone good)

Derivation:

disapprove (consider bad or wrong)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The expression of disapproval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("disapproval" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disapproval"):

condemnation; disapprobation (an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable)

criticism; unfavorable judgment (disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings)

discouragement (the expression of opposition and disapproval)

Antonym:

approval (a message expressing a favorable opinion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An inclination to withhold approval from some person or group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

disapproval; disfavor; disfavour; dislike

Hypernyms ("disapproval" is a kind of...):

disposition; inclination; tendency (an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disapproval"):

doghouse (an idiomatic term for being in disfavor)

reprobation (severe disapproval)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of disapproving or condemning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("disapproval" is a kind of...):

assessment; judgement; judgment (the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disapproval"):

disparagement; dispraise (the act of speaking contemptuously of)

condemnation ((law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building))

branding; stigmatisation; stigmatization (the act of stigmatizing)

Antonym:

approval (the formal act of approving)

Derivation:

disapprove (deem wrong or inappropriate)

 Context examples 

I threw up my hands with helpless disapproval of his inveterate materialism and went about making the bed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She knew they were failures, and he read her disapproval in every perfunctory and unenthusiastic line of her letter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The explosion of disapproval, which nothing but Silver's black looks had restrained, broke out immediately the doctor had left the house.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Challenger?" He gathered his brows in scientific disapproval.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was an expression of the master's disapproval, and White Fang's spirit wilted under it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His look and silence, as well as a certain inward self-disapproval, ruffled Amy, and made her resolve to deliver her lecture without delay.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was not resentment with her, but disapproval; though less sweet-natured women might have resented where she was no more than disappointed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Matt regarded his employer with grieved disapproval.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Challenger looked at me sympathetically, and shook his great head in mock disapproval.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was staring at her with undisguised surprise, and disapproval also, she thought, for though he bowed and smiled, yet something in his honest eyes made her blush and wish she had her old dress on.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)