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disapprove

verb

1 disapprove

Consider bad or wrong.

Roget 932: disapprove; dislike etc. 867; lament etc. 839; object to, take exception to; be scandalized at, think ill of; view with disfavor, view with dark eyes, view with jaundiced eyes; ... show more

Roget 971: condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; ... show more

Dutch: afkeuren, desapproberen, desavoueren, diskwalificeren

2 disapprove

Deem wrong or inappropriate:
— I disapprove of her child rearing methods.

synonym: reject.


Moby thesaurus: abjure, attaint, ban, belittle, bespatter, blackball, blacken, blame, blot, blow upon, brand, brush aside, categorically reject, censure, chuck, chuck out, condemn, contemn, contradict, criticize ... show more.

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