missbilligen
German, verb
missbilligen is spelled M-I-S-S-B-I-L-L-I-G-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 108,721st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Missbilligen is a German verb meaning “to disapprove, to frown upon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Missbilligen is a different word: “gerund of missbilligen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas nicht gut finden und es meist deutlich machen; ein Verhalten oder eine Entscheidung ablehnen”.
What does missbilligen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disapprove, to frown upon
noun
- 1
neutergerund of missbilligen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas nicht gut finden und es meist deutlich machen; ein Verhalten oder eine Entscheidung ablehnen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of missbilligen
- missbilligt present singular third-person
- missbilligte past
- haben auxiliary
- missbilligend participle present
- missbillige first-person indicative present
- missbilligst indicative present second-person
- missbilligest second-person singular subjunctive
- missbilliget plural second-person subjunctive
- missbilligten first-person indicative plural
- missbilligtest indicative preterite second-person
- missbilligtet indicative plural preterite
- missbillig imperative second-person singular
- habe missbilligt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben missbilligt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- mißbilligen obsolete
- missbillig! imperative singular
- missbillige! imperative singular
- missbilligt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to missbilligen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is missbilligen in German?
missbilligen appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).