disrespect

UK/dɪsɹɪˈspɛkt/

nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #3,598 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: disrespects

Disrespect is rudeness towards somebody who deserves better. Show disrespect, mean no disrespect, treated with disrespect.

No disrespect, but is a warning that disrespect follows. As a verb it is informal and comparatively recent in this use, and it usually appears where a person feels their standing has been slighted rather than their argument answered.

Definitions of disrespect

1noundisrespectRudeness towards somebody who deserves better.B1+
“Talking on your phone during the funeral showed real disrespect.”

disrespect is a rudeness.

Where it comes from

Latin
respectus
Old French
respect
Middle English
respect
English
respect
English, today
disrespect

Built from

respit · Old French — respect, regard, consideration
respiciō · Latin — look at, look back upon, respect
re- · Latin — back
speciō · Latin — to see

From dis- + respect. respect comes from Middle English respect, from Old French respect, from Latin respectus. From respect. From Middle English respect, from Old French respect, also respit (“respect, regard, consideration”), from Latin respectus (“a looking at, regard, respect”), perfect passive participle of respiciō (“look at, look back upon, respect”), from re- (“back”) + speciō (“to see”), equivalent to re + spect. a doublet of respite.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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