disapproval

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ approval.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈpɹuvəl/
• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɪsəˈpɹuːvəɫ]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

disapproval (countable and uncountable, plural disapprovals)

1. The act of disapproving; condemnation.

   Everyone glared in disapproval at the man talking loudly on the phone.

Synonyms

• disapprobation

Antonyms

• approval

Related terms

• disapprobation
• disapprove

Translations

disapproval

Azerbaijani: qınaq Belarusian: неадабрэ́нне n (njeadabrénnje) Bulgarian: неодобрение (bg) n (neodobrenie), порицание (bg) n (poricanie) Dutch: afkeuring (nl) f Finnish: vastustus (fi) French: désapprobation (fr) f German: Missbilligung (de) f Greek: αποδοκιμασία (el) f (apodokimasía) Hungarian: helytelenítés (hu), rosszallás (hu) Italian: disapprovazione (it) f Latin: improbātiō f Malayalam: വിസമ്മതം (visammataṁ) Maori: kirikiriā Polish: dezaprobata (pl) f Romanian: dezaprobare (ro) f Russian: неодобре́ние (ru) n (neodobrénije) Spanish: desaprobación (es) f Swedish: ogillande (sv) n Ukrainian: несхва́лення n (nesxválennja)

Further reading

• “disapproval”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “disapproval”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “disapproval”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.