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軽んじる · ichidan verb

Meanings

ichidan verb, transitive verb

Used when someone treats a person, opinion, or thing as unimportant or inferior. Often implies a dismissive or contemptuous attitude.

〈人ひと〉を軽かろんじるto look down on someone
彼かれは部ぶ下かを軽かろんじる態たい度どを取とった。
He took an attitude of looking down on his subordinates.
〈事こと〉を軽かろんじるto make light of a matter or rule
規き則そくを軽かろんじると、後あとで困こまることになる。
If you make light of the rules, you'll run into trouble later.
命いのちを軽かろんじるto treat life as unimportant, be careless with life
命いのちを軽かろんじる行こう為いは許ゆるされない。
Actions that treat life carelessly are unforgivable.

見み下くだすN1
見下す means to look down on someone with condescension, while 軽んじる focuses on treating someone or something as unimportant.
侮あなどるN1
侮る often implies underestimating someone's ability or a danger, while 軽んじる more broadly means disregarding the value or importance of something.
蔑さげすむN1
蔑む carries a stronger sense of scorn or contempt toward a person, whereas 軽んじる can apply to opinions, rules, or life in general, not just people.
軽けい視しN1
軽視する is a more formal, written equivalent meaning to underrate or attach too little importance to something, close in meaning to 軽んじる but less personal in tone.
見みくびるN1
軽んじる means to treat something or someone lightly or with little respect, whereas 見くびる specifically means to underestimate a person's ability or strength.

重おもんじるN1
重んじる means to value or respect highly, the direct opposite of 軽んじる, which means to treat as unimportant.
尊とうとぶN1
軽んじる means to treat something as unimportant or make light of it, the direct opposite of valuing it as in 尊ぶ.

疎うとんじる
疎んじる looks and sounds similar to 軽んじる but means to shun or estrange someone, not to belittle their importance.

Derived from the adjective 軽い (light) with the verbalizing suffix んじる, which adds a sense of treating something as light or unimportant.