to disvalue
- verb
- /dɪsˈvælju/
- Human beings universally disvalue death, discomfort, and incapacity.
Examples
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Okay, but saying you value X doesn't mean you have to disvalue Y, doesn't explain why you disvalue Y, and doesn't justify your disvaluing Y, particularly when, as you admit, you have little experience with Y and no interest in experiencing it.
Blog text (17) -
To lose control of one's body or mental functioning, as expressed through shouting, slurred speech, or fighting, is disvalued.
Academic text (1990) -
Far from disvaluing popular culture, it encourages the poor to take control of cultural symbols and their means of expression.
Academic text (1992) -
Popular culture, in which the message is couched in song and story, is disvalued.
Academic text (1992) -
Here we can take account, and that but briefly, only of feeling, which Jung described, unusually, as the way our psyches value, disvalue, and evaluate.
Academic text (1993) -
It will often be nearer to the truth to say that they choose not to participate in the mainstream culture, or that they disvalue, or even despise, aspects of that mainstream culture.
Academic text (1999) -
Okay, but saying you value X doesn't mean you have to disvalue Y, doesn't explain why you disvalue Y, and doesn't justify your disvaluing Y, particularly when, as you admit, you have little experience with Y and no interest in experiencing it.
Blog text (17) -
Okay, but saying you value X doesn't mean you have to disvalue Y, doesn't explain why you disvalue Y, and doesn't justify your disvaluing Y, particularly when, as you admit, you have little experience with Y and no interest in experiencing it.
Blog text (17) -
In the days when university grades were given out as an honest measure of academic and intellectual performance, cheating on exams or papers was a lot like the poker game in Rounders, a situation in which everyone was immediately aware that people who cheated were mocking or disvaluing the achievement of those who were acting honestly.
Academic text (2003) -
Some people tend to disvalue art that doesn't adhere to traditional standards.
Synonyms
To make something lower in rank, value or importance
To make something seem less important or respected
To make something worth less by adding cheaper material
Give a lower price than it really is worth
To think someone or something has little value
Antonyms
How Valued
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Disvalue comes from the first part dis- meaning 'not' or 'away' and value meaning 'worth'. So to disvalue something is to make it worth less or to think it has little or no importance.