Word for being looked down on

  [ Look daʊn ɒn ]   – смотреть свысока.

В сонме фразовых глаголов Look Down On не вызывает сложностей. Он переводится буквально: смотреть сверху вниз на человека. К предметам этот фразеологизм тоже может применяться, но образно.

Смотреть свысока = To disregard

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Do we look down on the less educated?

Неужели мы смотрим свысока на менее образованных?

She looks down on anyone who hasn’t had a university education.

Она смотрит свысока на всех, кто не получил университетского образования.

She thinks they look down on her because she doesn’t have a job.

Она думает, что они смотрят на нее свысока, потому что у нее нет работы.

Whatsapp users look down on ICQ users.

Пользователи Whatsapp смотрят свысока на пользователей ICQ.

I wasn’t successful, so my older sister looked down on me.

Я не добился успеха, поэтому моя старшая сестра смотрела на меня презрительно.

According to an unwritten law among criminals, a convict without tattoos is looked down on.

Согласно неписаному закону среди преступников, на осужденного без татуировок смотрят свысока.

Blue-collar workers are in favor of President Trump because they are sick of being looked down on.

Неквалифицированные рабочие поддерживают президента Трампа, потому что им надоело, что на них смотрят свысока.

For years, Silicon Valley looked down on China tech and believed it was only copying.

В течение многих лет Кремниевая долина смотрела на китайские технологии свысока и считала их копией.

I am being looked down upon by certain members of my family…

Некоторые члены моей семьи смотрят на меня свысока…

  •     Фразовые глаголы с Look
  •     Фразовые глаголы с предлогом ON
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What is a single word in English which means to look down on others (due to their younger age, lower socio-economic position, lesser experience, etc)

Not look down upon everyone else in general, but look down upon some particular person due to a feeling of superiority of oneself over them ( this superiority may come from the fact that one feels has more money, talent, etc)?

By «look down upon» I don’t mean just the feeling of having superiority over another, but acting to them in a manner that reflects this pride as well (for example, perhaps he acts very rudely to them, since he feels superior to them and feels he can get away with it, or he feels it doesn’t matter at all due to his superiority)

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You can consider condescend (to sb). If you condescend to somebody, you show feelings of superiority and you can even be patronizing toward that person. So, you actually show it in your actions and this can be called a condescending behavior.

to treat someone as if you are more important or more intelligent than them

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/condescend-to-sb

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If you are being condescending, you are looking down on someone. A 10-year-old who says to his sibling, «What do you know? You’re only a 6-year-old!» is being condescending.

The Latin prefix con- means «with,» and the Latin word for descend means «down,» so the word condescending probably developed to describe someone who looked down on others. Condescending behavior is, not surprisingly, itself looked down upon. It’s usually intended to make people feel bad about not knowing or having something, and it very often works.

Note: There is the pejorative term condescending prick also.


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What does ‘condescending’ exactly mean?

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  • Disdain
  • Scorn

Both mean to look on with contempt (or, in noun form, describe the act of looking on with contempt). (And there is the archaic contemn ) Both also imply a public, unashamed display of contempt (scorn even more so than disdain, I think).

He scorned their banal condolences; they were beneath his dignity.

We disdained him as a traitor and a coward.

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Were you looking for the verb «To patronize» by any chance, because I have remembered it when reading the answers here and it is what I was looking for.

Patronize | Verb |

Definiton: treat with an apparent kindness which betrays a feeling of superiority.

«‘She’s a good-hearted girl,’ he said in a patronizing voice»

Synonyms: treat condescendingly, treat with condescension, condescend to, look down on, talk down to, put down, humiliate, treat like a child, treat as inferior, treat with disdain, treat scornfully/contemptuously, be snobbish to

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Supercilious is a word to descend people with think they are superior to others

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look down on (someone or something)

To regard oneself as superior to someone or something and thus act in a haughty or snobbish manner. The well-dressed businessman looked down on the kid wearing a T-shirt in the elevator, not knowing that he was the new CEO. I have no idea why some people look down on those who speak with an accent—that means they know at least two languages!

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look down on

Also, look down one’s nose at. Regard with contempt or condescension, consider oneself superior to. For example, When it comes to baking, Beth is a purist-she looks down on anyone who uses a mix, or Seniors have a way of looking down their noses at juniors. The first expression dates from about 1700, the second from about 1900.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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  • look down on (someone or something)
  • look down upon (someone or something)
  • look down one’s nose at, to
  • look down (one’s) nose at (someone or something)
  • look down your nose at
  • look down your nose at something
  • look down nose
  • look down (one’s) nose
  • look down your nose
  • down (one’s) nose


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Nobody likes being looked down on.


We are tired of being looked down on in our own country.


When voters feel that they are being looked down on, they are sure to become angry.



Когда избиратели чувствуют, что на них смотрят свысока, они обязательно разозлятся.


Or for instance, the reason why violence becomes more common in more unequal societies is because people are sensitive to being looked down on.



Или, к примеру, причина распространения насилия в обществах с большим уровнем неравенства в том, что люди очень восприимчивы к тому, что на них смотрят сверху вниз.


And as you live on like that, even if you feel like life is against you now and you’re being looked down on.



И живя так, даже если будешь чувствовать, что жизнь против и на тебя смотрят свысока.


I was afraid to go out, afraid to meet people, afraid of the feeling of being looked down on.


Or for instance, the reason why violence becomes more common in more unequal societies is because people are sensitive to being looked down on.



Например, насилие становится всё более распространённым явлением в неравных обществах, потому что люди более чувствительны к презрению.

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look down (on or upon)

verb

Definition of look down (on or upon)next

as in to disdain

to show contempt for

I am tired of the way they look down on us like we aren’t good enough for them

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  • disdain

  • disrespect

  • hate

  • walk over

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  • look down one’s nose (at)

  • despise

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  • sniff (at)

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  • diss

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  • thumb one’s nose (at)

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  • loathe

  • highhat

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  • execrate

  • deplore

  • deprecate

  • discountenance

  • disfavor

  • disapprove (of)


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  • respect

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  • esteem

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  • okay

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3 формы глагола look down on

Английский глагол look down on [lʊk daʊn ɒn], переводится как: смотреть вниз.
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фразовые глаголы.

3 формы глагола look down on: Infinitive (look down on), Past Simple — (looked down on), Past Participle — (looked down on).

📚 Глагол look down on имеет значения: смотреть свысока.

👉 Формы глагола look down on в настоящем и прошедшем времени 2-я и 3-я форма.
❓ Как будет look down on в прошедшем времени past simple.

Три формы глагола look down on

Base Form Past Simple Past Participle Перевод
look down on [lʊk daʊn ɒn]

looked down on [lʊkt daʊn ɒn]

looked down on [lʊkt daʊn ɒn]

смотреть вниз

Как поставить look down on во 2-ю и 3-ю форму?

🎓 Как поставить глагол look down on в Past Simple, Future Simple, Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Future Perfect?

👉 Всё очень просто, в этих временах прошедшего, будущего и совершённого времени, в английском используются 2я и 3я форма глагола:

  • First form (V1) — look down on. (Present simple, Future Simple)
  • Second form (V2) —
    looked down on.

    (Past simple)

  • Third form (V3) —
    looked down on.

    (Present perfect, Past perfect)

Как поставить look down on в past simple?

Если вы не совсем поняли какую форму для look down on нужно использовать в прошедшем времени, будет:
look down on в past simple — looked down on.

What is the past tense of look down on?

The past tense of look down on is looked down on.

The past participle of look down on is looked down on.

Временные формы глагола — Verb Tenses

Past simple — look down on в past simple, будет looked down on.
(V2)

Future simple — look down on в future simple будет look down on. (will + V1)

Present Perfect — look down on в present perfect будет
looked down on.
(havehas + V3)

Past Perfect — look down on в past perfect будет
looked down on.

(had + V3)

Правильный или неправильный глагол look down on?

👉 Правильный это глагол ли нет? Глагол look down on это .

Примеры применения глагола look down on

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    The well-dressed businessman looked down on the kid wearing a T-shirt in the elevator — Хорошо одетый бизнесмен посмотрел на парня в футболке в лифте
    (Past Simple)

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    I have no idea why some people look down on those who speak with an accent — Понятия не имею, почему некоторые люди свысока смотрят на тех, кто говорит с акцентом
    (Present Simple)

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    You look down on me just because I’m here for the money — Ты смотришь на меня свысока только потому, что я тут из-за денег
    (Present Simple)

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    I don’t want to let anyone look down on me — Я не позволю никому смотреть на меня свысока
    (Present Simple)

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    No one will ever look down on me — Больше никто и никогда не будет смотреть на меня свысока
    (Future Simple)

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    I thought he was in the room here looking down on us — Я думал, он был здесь в комнате и смотрел на нас
    (Past Continuous)

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    You look down on me because I work — Ты смотришь на меня свысока потому что я работаю
    (Present Simple)

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    You have to dress like this so people don’t look down on you — Вы должны так одеваться, чтобы люди не смотрели на вас свысока
    (Present Simple)

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