Usually means: Feeling strong dislike or disgust.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word despising:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. despising: Merriam-Webster
  2. despising: Collins English Dictionary
  3. despising: Vocabulary.com
  4. Despising, despising: Wordnik
  5. despising: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. despising: Wiktionary
  7. Despising, despising: Dictionary.com
  8. despising: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Despising: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. despising: Rhymezone
  11. Despising: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. despising: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. despising: FreeDictionary.org
  14. despising: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. despising: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despising: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (despising)

▸ noun:  An act of despising.

Similar:
despisal, disdaining, spurning, disownment, deprecation, dehumanizing, degrading, deplorable, shunning, despoiling, more...

Opposite:
admiring, respecting, appreciating

Types:
loathing, hatred, detestation, abhorrence, more...

Adjectives:
hardened, other, self, much, confident, such, overmuch, worth, first, own, reckless



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Similar:
despisal, disdaining, spurning, disownment, deprecation, dehumanizing, degrading, deplorable, shunning, despoiling, more...

Opposite:
admiring, respecting, appreciating

Types:
loathing, hatred, detestation, abhorrence, more...

Adjectives:
hardened, other, self, much, confident, such, overmuch, worth, first, own, reckless



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