Usually means: Express condemnation or unfavorable opinion.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word disapprove:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. disapprove: Merriam-Webster
  2. disapprove: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disapprove: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disapprove: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disapprove: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disapprove, disapprove: Wordnik
  7. disapprove: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disapprove: Wiktionary
  9. disapprove: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disapprove: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disapprove: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Disapprove, disapprove: Dictionary.com
  13. disapprove: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. disapprove: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Disapprove: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. disapprove: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. disapprove: Rhymezone
  18. disapprove: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. disapprove: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. disapprove: FreeDictionary.org
  21. disapprove: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. disapprove: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. disapprove: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

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  2. disapprove: Idioms

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To condemn; to consider wrong or inappropriate; used with of.
▸ verb:  To have or express an unfavorable opinion.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To refuse to approve; reject.

Similar:
reject, improve, frown upon, reprove, unapprove, deplore, frown at, discommend, reprobate, frown on, more...

Opposite:
approve, sanction, endorse

Types:
condemn, denounce, dislike, object, oppose, protest, rebuke, reject, more...

Phrases:
disapprove of, disapprove very strongly, disapprove openly, strongly disapprove of, to disapprove, more...

Adjectives:
most, general, first, public, least, whole, martial, cool, undecided, neutral, sovereign

Colors:
    gray,     black,     brown,     dark green,     olive, more...


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Similar:
reject, improve, frown upon, reprove, unapprove, deplore, frown at, discommend, reprobate, frown on, more...

Opposite:
approve, sanction, endorse

Types:
condemn, denounce, dislike, object, oppose, protest, rebuke, reject, more...

Phrases:
disapprove of, disapprove very strongly, disapprove openly, strongly disapprove of, to disapprove, to strongly disapprove, more...

Adjectives:
most, general, first, public, least, whole, martial, cool, undecided, neutral, sovereign

Colors:
    gray,     black,     brown,     dark green,     olive, more...



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