disrepute
/dɪsɹɪˈpjuːt/
disrepute noun: loss or want of reputation; ill character.
Noun
disrepute (uncountable)
- Loss or want of reputation; ill character.
- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii
- The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...
Verb
disrepute (third-person singular simple present disreputes, present participle disreputing, simple past and past participle disreputed)
- To bring into disrepute; to hold in dishonor.
disrepute meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
disrepute in Tamil
- மானக்கேடு, அவப்பெயர், அபகீர்த்தி, அவமானம், பழி
disrepute in Urdu
- رسوائی
disrepute in Malayalam
- dishonour, disgrace, shame
- ദുഷ്കീർത്തി, അപകീർത്തി, കുഖ്യാതി, കുപ്രഥ, കുപ്രസിദ്ധി, ദുർയശസ്സ്
disrepute in Kannada
- ಕೆಟ್ಟಹೆಸರು, ಒಚ್ಚಿ, ಅಪಕೀರ್ತಿ, ಅಖ್ಯಾತಿ, ಅಪಕೀರ್ತಿಗೆ ಒಳಗುಮಾಡು, ಅಪಯಶಸ್ಸ ನ್ನುಂಟುಮಾಡು
More languagesFewer languages
- disrepute in Sanskrit
- अकीर्ति akīrti
Synonyms of disrepute
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Antonyms
Forms of disrepute
| third-person singular present | disreputes |
|---|---|
| present participle | disreputing |
| past participle | disreputed |
| past | disreputed |
Origin of disrepute
From dis- + repute.
Words that rhyme with disrepute
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cute
- moot
- overshoot
- recruit
- salute
- volute
- dispute
- impute
- pollute
- scoot
- snoot
- substitute
- chute
- depute
- dilute
- hoot
- loot
- pursuit
- reboot
- scute
- uproot
- Beirut
- cahoot
- Clute
- convolute
- lute
- zoot
- ablute
- Aleut
- argute
- astute
- beaut
- bruit
- compute
- coot
- doot
- en route
- glout
- jute
- minute
- newt
- poot
- refute
- repute
- resolute
- 'tute
- angel lute
- butte
Questions about disrepute
- What does disrepute mean?
- Disrepute means loss or want of reputation; ill character.
- What is disrepute in Tamil?
- Disrepute in Tamil is மானக்கேடு, அவப்பெயர், அபகீர்த்தி. See Disrepute meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is disrepute?
- Disrepute can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce disrepute?
- Disrepute is pronounced /dɪsɹɪˈpjuːt/ (UK).
Words near disrepute in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disrepute (page history and authors); disrepute (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disrepute (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disrepute (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); disrepute (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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