Definition Dictionary

Separate and distinct from other things.

A feeling that someone or something is beneath consideration or respect.

Showing a belief that someone or something is unworthy of respect.

Treating someone or something as unworthy of serious consideration.

To speak about someone or something in a way that belittles it.

Willing or having a tendency to do something.

Too large, small, or unequal in relation to something else.

To establish through evidence or reasoning that something is false.

Disagreement that produces division within a group.

The breaking up, ending, or disintegration of something.

To swell or cause to expand through pressure from within.

Expansion or swelling caused by stretching outward, often under pressure from within.

A difference that sets things apart, or an achievement that makes someone stand out.

Having a quality that makes someone or something recognizable and different from others.

A change that misrepresents or alters the true shape, meaning, or proportion of something.

The allocation or spread of things among people, places, or categories.

Concerned with allocating or sharing things among members of a group.

To record or support something with evidence.

To present something as less important or serious than it may be.

To draw out or infer something from available information.

An unpleasant smell or vapor emitted by something.

To force someone or something out of a place.

Basic or essential to the nature of something.

To raise something in position, status, quality, or level.