Antonyms for condescend
ˌkɒn dəˈsɛndcon·de·scend

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1. condescendverb

   To consent, agree.

   Synonyms:
   yield

2. condescendverb

   Synonyms:
   descend, stoop, vouchsafe, acquiesce, deign

3. condescendverb

   Synonyms:
   patronize

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1. condescend

   Antonyms:
   disdain, scorn, spurn

   Synonyms:
   stoop, descend, deign, vouchsafe

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1. condescendverb

   behave in a patronizing and condescending manner

   Synonyms:
   patronize, stoop, patronise, descend, lower oneself, deign

2. condescend, deign, descendverb

   do something that one considers to be below one's dignity

   Synonyms:
   fall, descend, deign, come down, stoop, derive, patronize, settle, patronise, lower oneself, go down, come

3. condescend, stoop, lower oneselfverb

   debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way

   "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"

   Synonyms:
   descend, bow, deign, stoop, patronize, patronise, bend, lower oneself, crouch

4. patronize, patronise, condescendverb

   treat condescendingly

   Synonyms:
   sponsor, keep going, descend, buy at, patronage, shop at, stoop, patronize, frequent, patronise, support, shop, lower oneself, deign

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1. condescendverb

   Synonyms:
   deign, vouchsafe

How to use condescend in a sentence?

1. George Steiner:

   The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

2. Brooks Atkinson:

   Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.

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