Usually means: Regard with feelings of superiority.
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  1. look down on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. look down on: Merriam-Webster
  3. look down on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. look down on: Vocabulary.com
  5. look down on: Wiktionary
  6. look down on: Dictionary.com
  7. look down on: Phrasal Verb Page
  8. look down on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. look down on: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. look down on: FreeDictionary.org

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  1. look down on: Legal dictionary

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  1. look down on: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (look down on)

▸ verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To regard or treat as inferior.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To view from a vantage point.
▸ verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To view [people or events on Earth] from the vantage point of the afterlife (originally, Heaven).

Similar:
look down upon, look down one's nose, inferiorize, condescend, inferiorise, hold cheap, look down, subordinate, think little of, overlook, more...

Opposite:
respect, admire, esteem, honor, value

Phrases:
to look down on, look down on someone, to look down on someone, rich look down on poor, to look down on someone or a race, more...

Adjectives:
jade, worst, degenerate, nether, abject, impair, compound, profligate, pan, crook, voyd

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Similar:
look down upon, look down one's nose, inferiorize, condescend, inferiorise, hold cheap, look down, subordinate, think little of, overlook, more...

Opposite:
respect, admire, esteem, honor, value

Phrases:
to look down on, look down on someone, to look down on someone, rich look down on poor, to look down on someone or a race, rich look down on, more...

Adjectives:
jade, worst, degenerate, nether, abject, impair, compound, profligate, pan, crook, voyd



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