jmdict 1583670 Active (id#2305677)
侮る [ichi1]
【 あなどる [ichi1] 】
  1. [v5r,vt]
    • to disdain
    • to look down on
    • to make light of
    • to hold in contempt
    • to scorn
    • to despise
Conjugations
History:
    • A 2024-06-24 17:53:04 Stephen Kraus (id#2305677)
    • Refs
      Daijirin has it tagged as 四段 and includes a quote from 源氏物語
    • A* 2024-06-24 17:31:18 Robin Scott (id#2305675)
    • Comments
      あなずる is archaic. I don't think it's worth keeping as a separate [arch] entry.
    • Diff
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    • A* 2017-03-09 00:39:00 Robin Scott
    • Comments
      Is 中辞典 not just an abridged version of GG5? Regardless, I disagree with them.
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Oxford: "Feel contempt or a deep repugnance for"
Cambridge: "to feel a strong dislike for someone or something because you think that that person or thing is bad or has no value"
Macmillan: "to hate someone or something and have no respect for them"
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Here are the 3 top example sentences from Oxford, Cambridge, and Merriam-Webster's entries for despise.
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"He despised himself for being selfish"
"She despised him for the way he treated her sister"
"She was despised as a hypocrite"
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Compare with the examples sentences for 侮る in daijs, prog, and E-DIC
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簡単な問題だと侮ってはいけない
侮って油断するな
子供の好奇心を侮ってはいけない
侮れない相手だ
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侮る would not be used to translate any of the English sentences, nor "despise" for the Japanese ones.
    • A* 2017-03-08 04:56:14 Jim Breen
    • Comments
      I'm not sure despise => hatred. For example Wordnet says of it:
v : look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately" [syn: {contemn}, {scorn}, {disdain}]
    • Refs
      GG5 & 中辞典 - both have "despise" as the first gloss.
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