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DISAPPROVAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of disapproving or condemning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("disapproval" is a kind of...):
assessment; judgement; judgment (the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disapproval"):
disparagement; dispraise (the act of speaking contemptuously of)
condemnation ((law) the act of condemning (as land forfeited for public use) or judging to be unfit for use (as a food product or an unsafe building))
branding; stigmatisation; stigmatization (the act of stigmatizing)
Antonym:
approval (the formal act of approving)
Derivation:
disapprove (deem wrong or inappropriate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
Synonyms:
disapproval; disfavor; disfavour; dislike
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("disapproval" is a kind of...):
disposition; inclination; tendency (an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disapproval"):
doghouse (an idiomatic term for being in disfavor)
reprobation (severe disapproval)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The expression of disapproval
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("disapproval" is a kind of...):
content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disapproval"):
condemnation; disapprobation (an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable)
criticism; unfavorable judgment (disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings)
discouragement (the expression of opposition and disapproval)
Antonym:
approval (a message expressing a favorable opinion)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("disapproval" is a kind of...):
dislike (a feeling of aversion or antipathy)
Antonym:
approval (a feeling of liking something or someone good)
Derivation:
disapprove (consider bad or wrong)
Context examples:
Instead, her eyes were fixed anxiously upon her betrothed, and Martin, following her gaze, saw spread on that worthy's asymmetrical features nothing but black and sullen disapproval.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The carriages were promised, Meg and Mother were all ready to do the honors, Beth was able to help Hannah behind the scenes, Jo had engaged to be as lively and amiable as an absent mind, and aching head, and a very decided disapproval of everybody and everything would allow, and as she wearily dressed, Amy cheered herself with anticipations of the happy moment when, lunch safely over, she should drive away with her friends for an afternoon of artistic delights, for the 'cherry bounce' and the broken bridge were her strong points.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Ruth's mind was quick, and her disapproval of her lover's views was buttressed by the contradiction she found in his contention.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And later, on a sleepless pillow, she puzzled, as she had often puzzled of late, as to how it was that she loved so strange a man, and loved him despite the disapproval of her people.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
