Synonyms for Dis-approving:

• adj.

  •censorious (adjective)
  • chiding,
  • Fault-finding,
  • overcritical,
  • captious,
  • disapproving,
  • accusatory,
  • severe,
  • Reprehending,
  • disparaging,
  • Reproaching,
  • carping,
  • condemning,
  • Culpatory,
  • hypercritical,
  • complaining,
  • Cavillous,
  • Denouncing,
  • condemnatory,
  • critical,
  • caviling.
  •complaining (adjective)
  • grumbling,
  • repining,
  • Charging,
  • accusing,
  • discontented,
  • mourning,
  • weeping,
  • lamenting,
  • murmuring,
  • moaning,
  • protesting,
  • malcontent,
  • bellyaching,
  • Regretting,
  • Bewailing,
  • peevish,
  • Fretting,
  • Deploring,
  • dissenting,
  • querulous,
  • whining.
  •critical (adjective)
  • hairsplitting,
  • demanding,
  • penetrating,
  • diagnostic,
  • critic,
  • finicky,
  • cutting,
  • humbling,
  • derogatory,
  • reproachful,
  • withering,
  • sarcastic,
  • nit-picking,
  • analytical,
  • calumniatory,
  • trenchant,
  • censorious,
  • biting,
  • scolding,
  • Censuring,
  • niggling,
  • sharp,
  • satirical,
  • belittling,
  • Exceptive,
  • cynical,
  • fussy,
  • particular,
  • demeaning,
  • discriminating,
  • exacting,
  • nagging,
  • choleric,
  • discerning,
  • lowering.
  •deprecative (adjective)
  • depreciative,
  • deprecating,
  • derogative,
  • detractive,
  • depreciatory,
  • uncomplimentary,
  • slighting,
  • deprecatory.
  •deprecatory (adjective)
  • deprecative.
  •dim (adjective)
  • depressing,
  • unpromising,
  • skeptical,
  • gloomy,
  • suspicious,
  • discouraging,
  • somber.
  •hostile (adjective)
  • inimical,
  • opposed,
  • surly,
  • virulent,
  • unwelcoming,
  • dour,
  • bellicose,
  • spiteful,
  • warlike,
  • unfriendly,
  • malignant,
  • unpropitious,
  • hateful,
  • malevolent,
  • cold,
  • rancorous,
  • contentious,
  • contrary,
  • catty,
  • chill,
  • vitriolic,
  • ill-disposed,
  • scrappy,
  • pugnacious,
  • ornery,
  • unfavorable,
  • nasty,
  • Viperous,
  • adverse,
  • allergic,
  • inhospitable,
  • Oppugnant,
  • bitter,
  • argumentative,
  • unsociable,
  • militant,
  • sour,
  • alien,
  • unkind,
  • belligerent,
  • competitive,
  • unsympathetic,
  • opposite,
  • anti,
  • malicious.
  •jaundiced (adjective)
  • distorted,
  • partisan,
  • unfair,
  • biased,
  • bigoted,
  • intolerant,
  • preconceived,
  • envious,
  • jealous,
  • hostile,
  • opprobrious,
  • grudging,
  • unindifferent,
  • Prepossessed,
  • tendentious,
  • one-sided,
  • yellow,
  • warped,
  • colored,
  • partial,
  • resentful.
  •overcritical (adjective)
  • faultfinding.
  •resentful (adjective)
  • acrimonious,
  • embittered.
  •severe (adjective)
  • hard-nosed,
  • iron-handed,
  • pitiless,
  • flinty,
  • unchanging,
  • firm,
  • austere,
  • serious,
  • strict,
  • unrelenting,
  • inconsiderate,
  • resolute,
  • inflexible,
  • unfeeling,
  • unsparing,
  • unalterable,
  • tight-lipped,
  • caustic,
  • grave,
  • oppressive,
  • hard,
  • sober,
  • resolved,
  • unsmiling,
  • close,
  • relentless,
  • stern,
  • earnest,
  • grim,
  • scathing,
  • obdurate,
  • rigid,
  • stiff,
  • inexorable,
  • harsh,
  • peremptory,
  • unbending,
  • astringent,
  • cruel,
  • strait-laced,
  • forbidding.

• v.

  •blame (verb)
  • indict,
  • attribute,
  • rap,
  • point the finger,
  • disapprove,
  • stick it to,
  • knock,
  • admonish,
  • roast,
  • express disapprobation,
  • condemn,
  • ascribe,
  • lay to,
  • chide,
  • finger,
  • skin,
  • frame,
  • saddle,
  • reproach,
  • rebuke,
  • climb all over,
  • blast,
  • upbraid,
  • pass the buck,
  • Denunciate,
  • jump down one's throat,
  • jump all over,
  • blow the whistle on,
  • impute,
  • tax,
  • lay at one's door,
  • lay a bad trip on,
  • charge,
  • let one have it,
  • lower the boom,
  • hold responsible.
  •censure (verb)
  • denigrate,
  • cavil,
  • look askance,
  • disparage,
  • take to task,
  • pull apart,
  • contemn,
  • cut up,
  • impugn,
  • incriminate,
  • asperse,
  • carp at,
  • backbite,
  • abuse,
  • tell off,
  • read out,
  • animadvert,
  • castigate,
  • exprobate,
  • discipline,
  • ostracize,
  • get after,
  • attack,
  • berate,
  • tear apart,
  • reprimand,
  • lecture,
  • rebuff,
  • judge,
  • pick apart,
  • scold.
  •complain (verb)
  • find fault,
  • grouse,
  • repine,
  • defy,
  • lament,
  • bemoan,
  • accuse,
  • dissent,
  • groan,
  • moan,
  • snivel,
  • wail,
  • demur,
  • carp,
  • gripe,
  • object,
  • lay,
  • gainsay,
  • whimper,
  • growl,
  • bitch,
  • refute,
  • grieve,
  • bewail,
  • whine,
  • fuss,
  • beef,
  • fret,
  • bellyache,
  • sound off,
  • yammer,
  • make a fuss,
  • contravene,
  • grumble,
  • protest,
  • kick up a fuss,
  • disagree,
  • differ,
  • nag.
  •condemn (verb)
  • proscribe,
  • hang something on,
  • adjudge,
  • name,
  • put down,
  • point finger at,
  • blow whistle on,
  • call down,
  • doom,
  • send up the river,
  • thumbs down on,
  • sentence,
  • punish,
  • find guilty,
  • send up,
  • pronounce,
  • let have it,
  • put away,
  • pass sentence on,
  • belittle,
  • pin it on,
  • depreciate,
  • come down on.
  •decline (verb)
  • bypass,
  • not accept,
  • shy,
  • abstain,
  • refrain,
  • abjure,
  • turn thumbs down,
  • not hear of,
  • renounce,
  • not think of,
  • avoid,
  • forbear,
  • send regrets,
  • repudiate,
  • deny,
  • beg to be excused,
  • don't buy,
  • desist,
  • forgo,
  • balk.
  •demur (verb)
  • dispute,
  • waver,
  • take exception,
  • doubt,
  • hem and haw,
  • complain,
  • hesitate,
  • wait and see,
  • combat,
  • stickle,
  • vacillate,
  • fight,
  • pussyfoot,
  • pause,
  • challenge,
  • resist,
  • strain,
  • stick,
  • scruple.
  •disapprove (verb)
  • dislike,
  • take dim view of,
  • oppose,
  • zing,
  • remonstrate,
  • detract,
  • decry,
  • denounce,
  • refuse,
  • veto,
  • pass on,
  • blame,
  • find fault with,
  • censure,
  • frown on,
  • find unacceptable,
  • object to,
  • turn down,
  • reprove,
  • disesteem,
  • damn,
  • dismiss,
  • disfavor,
  • reprehend,
  • reject,
  • chastise,
  • Discommend,
  • slam,
  • look down on,
  • deprecate,
  • reprobate,
  • discountenance,
  • expostulate,
  • take exception to,
  • nix,
  • look askance at,
  • disallow,
  • deplore,
  • criticize,
  • spurn,
  • dispraise,
  • set aside,
  • pan.
  •discountenance (verb)
  • not go for,
  • discourage,
  • hold no brief for,
  • not stand for,
  • take a dim view of,
  • count me out.
  •dislike (verb)
  • resent,
  • despise,
  • loathe,
  • not appreciate,
  • shun,
  • abominate,
  • grossed out on,
  • lose interest in,
  • have hard feelings,
  • scorn,
  • be turned off to,
  • regret,
  • be averse to,
  • execrate,
  • mind,
  • have no taste for,
  • eschew,
  • not take kindly to,
  • make faces at,
  • Antipathize,
  • have no stomach for,
  • not care for,
  • not feel like,
  • bear malice toward,
  • shudder at,
  • abhor,
  • not endure,
  • Disrelish,
  • be allergic to,
  • detest.
  •diverge (verb)
  • depart,
  • argue,
  • contrast,
  • swerve,
  • stray,
  • conflict,
  • turn aside,
  • vary,
  • wander,
  • digress,
  • deviate.
  •hate (verb)
  • be loath,
  • be sorry,
  • curse,
  • can't stand,
  • deride,
  • allergic to,
  • feel malice to,
  • nauseate,
  • bear a grudge against,
  • have no use for,
  • have an aversion to,
  • have enough of,
  • be sick of,
  • recoil from,
  • be repelled by,
  • spit upon,
  • be disgusted with,
  • disdain,
  • be reluctant,
  • be hostile to,
  • anathematize,
  • down on.
  •hiss (verb)
  • hoot,
  • whiz,
  • whisper,
  • jeer,
  • rasp,
  • catcall,
  • revile,
  • spit,
  • boo,
  • wheeze,
  • whistle,
  • mock,
  • shout down,
  • seethe,
  • blow,
  • shrill,
  • whirr,
  • siss,
  • sibilate.
  •mind (verb)
  • be opposed,
  • take offense,
  • be affronted.
  •object (verb)
  • except,
  • mix it up with,
  • be displeased,
  • frown,
  • kick,
  • disavow,
  • rail,
  • raise objection,
  • cross,
  • tangle,
  • go-one-on-one,
  • inveigh,
  • rave,
  • rant,
  • crab,
  • squawk,
  • make a stink,
  • take on,
  • storm.
  •oppose (verb)
  • counterattack,
  • expose,
  • debate,
  • contradict,
  • not countenance,
  • reverse,
  • hinder,
  • taunt,
  • bar,
  • check,
  • bombard,
  • turn the tables,
  • assault,
  • controvert,
  • confront,
  • thwart,
  • fly in the face of,
  • call in question,
  • withstand,
  • speak against,
  • run counter to,
  • search out,
  • battle,
  • prevent,
  • stand up to,
  • face,
  • encounter,
  • assail,
  • frown at,
  • take issue,
  • counter,
  • face down,
  • take a stand,
  • neutralize.
  •quarrel (verb)
  • collide,
  • struggle,
  • row,
  • clash,
  • set to,
  • feud,
  • fall out,
  • have it out,
  • cross swords,
  • spat,
  • caterwaul,
  • hassle,
  • war,
  • break with,
  • squabble,
  • scrap,
  • spar,
  • bicker,
  • lock horns,
  • strive,
  • get tough with,
  • have words,
  • embroil,
  • be at loggerheads,
  • bump,
  • wrangle,
  • brawl,
  • contest,
  • divide,
  • mix it up,
  • altercate,
  • contend.
  •refuse (verb)
  • hold out,
  • refuse to receive,
  • pass up,
  • withhold,
  • repel,
  • turn deaf ear to,
  • ignore,
  • disaccord,
  • not budge,
  • turn away,
  • not buy,
  • dodge,
  • decline,
  • turn one's back on,
  • hold off,
  • brush off,
  • not budget,
  • give thumbs down to,
  • make excuses,
  • send off,
  • not care to,
  • beg off,
  • turn from,
  • evade,
  • withdraw,
  • hold back,
  • dispense with.
  •regret (verb)
  • rue,
  • feel sorry,
  • mourn,
  • feel remorse,
  • miss,
  • kick oneself,
  • have qualms,
  • be disturbed,
  • feel uneasy,
  • have compunctions,
  • cry over spilled milk,
  • apologize,
  • look back,
  • repent,
  • weep over,
  • be sorry for,
  • cry over,
  • weep.
  •remonstrate (verb)
  • rain,
  • recriminate,
  • pick at,
  • frown upon.
  •repudiate (verb)
  • dishonor,
  • banish,
  • desert,
  • cast off,
  • disown,
  • apostatize,
  • retract,
  • Disacknowledge,
  • revoke,
  • disinherit,
  • repeal,
  • disclaim,
  • recant,
  • defect,
  • discard,
  • turn,
  • default,
  • wash one's hands of,
  • cut off,
  • dump,
  • tergiversate,
  • oust,
  • tergiverse,
  • rescind,
  • forsake,
  • abandon,
  • be against,
  • flush,
  • rat,
  • cast.
  •scowl (verb)
  • glower,
  • glare,
  • lour,
  • lower,
  • grimace,
  • look daggers at,
  • make a face,
  • gloom.
  •sibilate (verb)
  • fizzle,
  • swish,
  • sizzle,
  • whoosh,
  • fizz.
  •spurn (verb)
  • pass by,
  • air,
  • repulse,
  • turn nose up at,
  • steer clear,
  • snub,
  • sneeze at,
  • hold in contempt,
  • disregard,
  • cut,
  • scoff,
  • sneer,
  • drop,
  • give the cold shoulder,
  • flout,
  • slight.
  •turn down (verb)
  • throw out,
  • say no.
  •veto (verb)
  • interdict,
  • ban,
  • negate,
  • thumbs down,
  • kill,
  • rule out,
  • give thumbs down,
  • shoot down,
  • burn,
  • blackball,
  • negative,
  • prohibit,
  • defeat,
  • throw away,
  • forbid,
  • pass.

Antonyms for Dis-approving:

• adj.

  • censorious
    encouraging, laudatory, flattering, praising, complimentary.
  • complaining
    Appreciating, Enjoying.
  • critical
    uncritical, unimportant, trivial.
  • dim
    cheerful, brilliant, smart, happy, joyful, light, good, intelligent, bright, clear, favorable, distinct.
  • hostile
    helping, hospitable, nice, gentle, kind, friendly, sympathetic, hot, warm, wonderful, agreeable, Aiding, pleasant, welcoming, helpful.
  • jaundiced
    unbiased, unprejudiced, fresh, clean.
  • severe
    compromising, mild, temperate, facile, easy-going, willing, easy, amenable, calm.

• v.

  • blame
    applaud, absolve, exonerate, flatter, exculpate, thank, free, acquit.
  • censure
    forgive, protect, defend, cherish.
  • complain
    give in, aid, concur, gloat, help, support, go along, assent, be happy, delight, consent, please, surrender, retreat, be content, recommend, soothe.
  • condemn
    discharge, release, pardon, set free, build up.
  • decline
    grant, ascend, go up, rise, indulge, continue, say yes, use, want, increase, improve.
  • demur
    believe.
  • disapprove
    compliment, accept, allow, endorse, laud, promote, exalt, agree, sanction, commend, approve, like, ratify, permit, welcome, love, praise.
  • discountenance
    back, countenance.
  • dislike
    face, meet, adore, admire.
  • diverge
    join, converge, harmonize, stay, parallel, remain.
  • mind
    disregard, ignore, forget, neglect, disobey.
  • oppose
    encourage, assist, forward, participate, favor, make peace, yield, comply.
  • quarrel
    give up, keep.
  • refuse
    offer, ok.
  • regret
    be satisfied.
  • remonstrate
    concede.
  • repudiate
    emphasize, acknowledge, admit, retain, enforce, hold.
  • scowl
    grin, smile.
  • spurn
    include, respect, esteem, embrace.
  • turn down
    take.
  • veto
    lose.