DISRESPECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disrespect mean? 

• DISRESPECT (noun)
  The noun DISRESPECT has 3 senses:

1. an expression of lack of respect

2. a disrespectful mental attitude

3. a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous

  Familiarity information: DISRESPECT used as a noun is uncommon.

• DISRESPECT (verb)
  The verb DISRESPECT has 2 senses:

1. show a lack of respect for

2. have little or no respect for; hold in contempt

  Familiarity information: DISRESPECT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISRESPECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An expression of lack of respect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

discourtesy; disrespect

Hypernyms ("disrespect" 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 "disrespect"):

abuse; contumely; insult; revilement; vilification (a rude expression intended to offend or hurt)

derision (contemptuous laughter)

ridicule (language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate)

contempt; scorn (open disrespect for a person or thing)

depreciation; derogation; disparagement (a communication that belittles somebody or something)

cheek; impertinence; impudence (an impudent statement)

blasphemy (blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred))

Derivation:

disrespect (show a lack of respect for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A disrespectful mental attitude

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)

Antonym:

respect (an attitude of admiration or esteem)

Derivation:

disrespect (show a lack of respect for)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

contempt; disrespect

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

discourtesy; rudeness (a manner that is rude and insulting)

Derivation:

disrespect (have little or no respect for; hold in contempt)

disrespect (show a lack of respect for)

• DISRESPECT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disrespect    ... he / she / it disrespects   
Past simple: disrespected   
Past participle: disrespected   
-ing form: disrespecting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Show a lack of respect for

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "disrespect" is one way to...):

relate (have or establish a relationship to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disrespect"):

breach; break; go against; infract; offend; transgress; violate (act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

respect (show respect towards)

Derivation:

disrespect (a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous)

disrespect (a disrespectful mental attitude)

disrespect (an expression of lack of respect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Have little or no respect for; hold in contempt

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

disesteem; disrespect

Hypernyms (to "disrespect" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disrespect"):

undervalue (esteem lightly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

respect (regard highly; think much of)

Derivation:

disrespect (a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous)

 Context examples 

If I shrunk into myself, hiding the disrespect I had undergone, it was because I honoured you so much, and so much wished that you should honour me!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By our Lady! and withouten disrespect, quoth Terlake, it is in my mind that her lady-mother is more fitted to lead a company to a storming than to have the upbringing of this tender and milk-white maid.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her greatest wonder on the subject soon became—not that Susan should have been provoked into disrespect and impatience against her better knowledge—but that so much better knowledge, so many good notions should have been hers at all; and that, brought up in the midst of negligence and error, she should have formed such proper opinions of what ought to be; she, who had had no cousin Edmund to direct her thoughts or fix her principles.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

When they had nothing else to say, it must be always easy to begin abusing Miss Woodhouse; and the enmity which they dared not shew in open disrespect to her, found a broader vent in contemptuous treatment of Harriet.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I am by no means of the opinion, I assure you, said he, that a ball of this kind, given by a young man of character, to respectable people, can have any evil tendency; and I am so far from objecting to dancing myself, that I shall hope to be honoured with the hands of all my fair cousins in the course of the evening; and I take this opportunity of soliciting yours, Miss Elizabeth, for the two first dances especially, a preference which I trust my cousin Jane will attribute to the right cause, and not to any disrespect for her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It would be something so very unceremonious, so bordering on disrespect for Mrs. Rushworth, whose own manners were such a pattern of good-breeding and attention, that she really did not feel equal to it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You will not, I hope, consider me as showing any disrespect to your family, my dear madam, by thus withdrawing my pretensions to your daughter's favour, without having paid yourself and Mr. Bennet the compliment of requesting you to interpose your authority in my behalf.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The two ladies, even in the short time they had been together, had disagreed; and the bitterness of the elder against her daughter-in-law might perhaps arise almost as much from the personal disrespect with which she had herself been treated as from sensibility for her son.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)