Synonyms for condemnation
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Disapproval — the act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong
disapproval, censure, disapprobation, blame, damnation, reprobation, displeasure, reprehension, reproach, dispraise
2. Judgment — the act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to…
judgment US, judgement UK, conviction, proscription, attaintment dated, attainture dated
3. Curse
4. Denunciation
Other
sentence, doom, decrial, anathematization, anathematisation UK
Definitions
- n. 1
The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong.
- n. 2
The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
- n. 3
The state of being condemned.
- n. 4
The ground or reason of condemning.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- action expression
Forms
- Plural
- condemnations → disapprovals, censures, disapprobations, damnations…
Example sentences
- blame It sounds as if he were to blame for the disaster.
- disapproval They communicate disapproval by shaking their heads.
- damnation The damnation doesn't want to let us!
- judgment Yanni is going to face God on the Day of Judgment.
- conviction An opinion is shocking only if it is a conviction.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| condemnation | falling | |
| blame | rising | |
| disapproval | steady | |
| damnation | rising | |
| disapprobation | steady | |
| judgment | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- doom1
- 5 letters
- blame1, curse1
- 6 letters
- tirade2
- 7 letters
- censure2, decrial
- 8 letters
- sentence2, judgment2, reproach2, anathema4, harangue2
- 9 letters
- judgement2, damnation3, dispraise
- 10 letters
- conviction3, execration, attainture
- 11 letters
- disapproval4, displeasure3, reprobation, attaintment
- 12 letters
- denunciation5, proscription3, reprehension
- 14 letters
- disapprobation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tirade2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- condamnation
- Italiano
- condanna
- Español
- condenación
- Deutsch
- Verurteilung