The antonyms for the phrase "looked down upon" are respect, honor, admire, praise, and appreciate. These words suggest positive feelings and opinions towards a person, rather than negative judgments or attitudes. When we respect someone, we acknowledge their worth and value, and treat them with dignity and consideration. Honoring someone means recognizing their accomplishments and showing them reverence. Admiring someone indicates that we see them as exceptional or admirable in some way. Praising someone is showing appreciation for something they have done well, while appreciating someone is valuing them for who they are, regardless of their achievements. All these antonyms convey a sense of positivity and esteem in contrast to the negative connotations of being looked down upon.

What are the antonyms for Looked down upon?

• v.

  • dominate
  • be below
  ,
  • follow
  ,
  • go along
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  • submit
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  • surrender
  ,
  • yield
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  • dwarf
  • help
  ,
  • maximize
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  • oversize
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  • praise
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Famous quotes with Looked down upon

• The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

  Joseph Schumpeter
• Several times I have commented that hatred felt long and deeply enough no longer feels like hatred, but more like tradition, economics, religion, what have you. It is when those traditions are challenged, when the entitlement is threatened, when the masks of religion, economics, and so on are pulled away that hate transforms from its more seemingly sophisticated, "normal," chronic state--where those exploited are looked down upon, or despised--to a more acute and obvious manifestation. Hate becomes more perceptible when it is no longer normalized. Another way to say all of this is that if the rhetoric of superiority works to maintain the entitlement, hatred and direct physical force remain underground. But when that rhetoric begins to fail, force and hatred waits in the wings, ready to explode.

  Derrick Jensen
• No, I have already said it elsewhere. This earth has had all the exoticism washed out of it. If in a hundred years we have not established contact with some other planet (but we will), or, next best, with the earth's interior, humanity is finished. There is no longer a means of living, we explode, we go to war, we perpetrate evil of all sorts; we are, in a word, incapable of remaining any longer on this rind. We are in mortal pain; both from the dimensions as they now stand, and from the lack of any future dimension to which we can turn, now that our tour of the earth has been done to death. (These opinions, I know, are quite sufficient to have me looked down upon as a mind of the fourth order.)

  Henri Michaux
• She gazed, although she knew not why, Where ocean seemed another sky. The moon looked down upon the deep, Till in that deep it seemed to be; Scarce might the eye the image keep Of which was sky, and which was sea.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
• As a Macedonian [Philip] was looked down upon by the more refined Athenians, but they shared the same Hellenistic culture. How deep this went is evident in aesthetically the least spectacular, but politically the most explosive, of the finds in Vergina. In the Great Tumulus above Philip's tombs, which was raised by the invading Galatians in 274 BC, the archaeologists found fragments of no fewer than seventy-five funeral monuments, or stelai. The names on these were entirely Greek, save two which appeared to be Hellenised versions of Thracian and Phoenician names. The implication is that Philip's Macedonia was thoroughly Hellenised, an outpost of classical Greek culture.

  Robert Fox

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Synonyms:

scuttlebutt, scuttlebutt.