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卑しむ (いやしむ, iyashimu) Japanese meaning: despise | Kotomora
Conjugation 卑しむ · godan verb (-mu)
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 卑いや しむ 卑いや しまない Polite 卑いや しみます 卑いや しみません Past polite 卑いや しみました 卑いや しみませんでした Past 卑いや しんだ 卑いや しまなかった Te-form 卑いや しんで 卑いや しまないで Desire 卑いや しみたい 卑いや しみたくない Potential 卑いや しめる 卑いや しめない Passive 卑いや しまれる 卑いや しまれない Causative 卑いや しませる 卑いや しませない Causative passive 卑いや しませられる also 卑いや しまされる 卑いや しませられない also 卑いや しまされない Volitional 卑いや しもう Polite volitional 卑いや しみましょう Imperative 卑いや しめ 卑いや しむな Conditional 卑いや しめば 卑いや しまなければ Tara conditional 卑いや しんだら 卑いや しまなかったら
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彼かれ
は
他た
人にん
を
卑いや
しむ
よう
な
態たい
度ど
を
とる
。
He takes an attitude of looking down on others.
A society that despises poverty is cold-hearted.
Kanji 賤 despise, low-life, poverty Related words 見み 下くだ す More common in everyday speech; literally 'look down', similar in meaning but less literary than 卑しむ.
軽けい 蔑べつ する Common suru-verb for 'despise' or 'contempt'; more neutral register, widely used in both spoken and written Japanese.
蔑さげす む Also means 'to scorn' or 'to despise'; similar literary tone, but 卑しむ emphasizes baseness or vulgarity more strongly.
Written forms 卑いや しむ Usage 57%
Standard kanji spelling; 卑 carries the meaning of 'base' or 'vulgar'.
いやしむ Usage 27%
Kana spelling is acceptable, especially when the kanji is considered difficult or obscure.
賤いや しむ Usage 16%
Rare variant using 賤 (lowly, humble); not commonly used in modern Japanese.
Etymology Derived from the adjective 卑しい (いやしい, 'base, vulgar, greedy') with the verb-forming suffix む, which often adds a sense of 'to regard as' or 'to treat as'. The kanji 卑 carries the core meaning of lowliness or baseness.
