look-down-on
Chunk: look down on
Meaning & Usage
To look down on someone means to think that you are better or more important than them. It implies arrogance and a feeling of superiority regarding someone else's social status, education, or wealth. The opposite is look up to.
🧲 Common Collocates
- Targets: look down on people, look down on the poor, look down on manual labor.
- Contexts: tends to look down on, always looking down on.
💬 Contextual Examples
- She looks down on anyone who doesn't have a university degree.
- Because he comes from a wealthy family, he sometimes looks down on his coworkers.
- I hate how they look down on people who live in this neighborhood.
🎴 Interactive Web Practice
Practice 1: He is very arrogant and tends to look ______ on people with less experience.
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down Practice 2: Please don't look down ______ me just because I made a mistake.
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on Practice 3: They looked ______ on the old car we were driving.
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down 🔗 Knowledge Base Connections
- 🔑 Parent Keyword: look
- ⚖️ Antonym Chunk: look-up-to