desprezo
Portuguese, noun
desprezo is spelled D-E-S-P-R-E-Z-O (8 letters) and appears 7.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 9,452nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desprezo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “contempt; disdain (the act of regarding someone or something as worthless)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of desprezar. With an accent, desprêzo is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “desconsideração”.
What does desprezo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecontempt; disdain (the act of regarding someone or something as worthless)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of desprezar
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of desprezo
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. desconsideração 2. desdém
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of desprezo
- desprezos plural
- desprêzo alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to desprezo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desprezo in Portuguese?
desprezo appears 7.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).