Definition
To regard or treat as inferior.
To view [people or events on Earth] from the vantage point of the afterlife (originally, Heaven).
In Context
- "He remembers feeling that people looked down on him, and, ‘realising I was rubbish at academic stuff’, he decided he'd join a circus."
- "I get a feeling Kurt Cobain is looking down on Nickelback and wondering what alternative rock has become."
Also Said As
- disesteem
- disdain
- look down one's nose
- contemn
- despect
- disrespect
- despise
- disdain
- disesteem
- look down on
- misrespect
- scorn
- spurn
Opposite In Meaning
- look up to
- respect
- esteem
- honor
- idolize
- lay store by
- look up to
- prize
- hallow
- put store by
- put store in
- rate
- regard
- respect
- revere
- set store by
- value
- venerate
- worthy
See Also
- look upon