look down on
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Verb
[edit]look down on (third-person singular simple present looks down on, present participle looking down on, simple past and past participle looked down on)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To regard or treat as inferior.
- 2009 September 25, Michael Deacon, “Ross Noble: interview”, in Telegraph.co.uk:
- He remembers feeling that people looked down on him, and, ‘realising I was rubbish at academic stuff’, he decided he'd join a circus.
- (transitive) To view from a vantage point.
- 1948 March and April, “A Keypoint in an Intensive Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 115:
- High up on the viaduct, and approached by a spidery staircase from the street, it looks down on Southwark Cathedral.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To view [people or events on Earth] from the vantage point of the afterlife (originally, Heaven).
- I get a feeling Kurt Cobain is looking down on Nickelback and wondering what alternative rock has become.
Synonyms
[edit]- look down one's nose (at)
Antonyms
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[edit]to regard or treat as inferior
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