different between derision vs disregard

English

Etymology

From Old French derision, from Latin d?r?si?nem, accusative of d?r?si?, from d?r?d?re ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??????n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

derision (countable and uncountable, plural derisions)

1. Act of treating with disdain.
2. Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 14:

     Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]

Related terms

• deride
• derider
• ridicule
• ridiculous
• ridiculosity

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Further reading

• derision in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• derision in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Ironside, ironised, ironside, resinoid

English

Etymology

From dis- +? regard. Compare misregard.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s??????d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s??????d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d
• Hyphenation: dis?re?gard

Noun

disregard (usually uncountable, plural disregards)

1. The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.

   The government's disregard for the needs of disabled people is outrageous.

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Verb

disregard (third-person singular simple present disregards, present participle disregarding, simple past and past participle disregarded)

1. (transitive) To ignore; pay no attention to.

Synonyms

• misregard, unheed, unmind; see also Thesaurus:ignore

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