Related Searches
Nearby Words
Related Questions
What does the prefix dis mean?

Dis

 [dees]   Example Sentences Origin

dis

1   [dees]
noun, plural dis·ir  [dee-sir] . Scandinavian Mythology.
1.
lady; woman.
2.
female deity, especially one promoting fertility: often used as a suffix on names: Freydis; Hjordis; Thordis.
Dis Definition Dictionary.com Find Definitions For Any Word.Get Your Free Dictionary.com Toolbar.
Ad
Origin:
< Old Norse dīs, plural dīsir; origin uncertain

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Dis is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
LEARN MORE UNUSUAL WORDS WITH WORD DYNAMO...
Example Sentences
  • Dis is defiant, saying that he has begun asking customers to contribute money so he can pay whatever fines are levied.
  • There were some other grad students who got pregnant and used it as an excuse to not finish their dis.
  • There is hardly a blackened ruin in the burnt dis trict, nearly everything being turned white by the intense heat.
EXPAND
Dictionary.com Unabridged

dis

2   [dis] verb, dissed, dis·sing, noun Slang.
verb (used with object)
1.
to show disrespect for; affront.
2.
to disparage; belittle.
noun
3.
insult or disparagement; criticism.
Origin:
1980–85, Americanism; from dis-1 extracted from such words as disrespect and disparage

Dis

   [dis]
noun Classical Mythology.
a god of the underworld.
Also called Dis Pater.
Compare Pluto.

dis-

1 
a Latin prefix meaning “apart,” “asunder,” “away,” “utterly,” or having a privative, negative, or reversing force (see de-, un-2); used freely, especially with these latter senses, as an English formative: disability; disaffirm; disbar; disbelief; discontent; dishearten; dislike; disown.
Also, di-.

Origin:
< Latin (akin to bis, Greek dís twice); before f, dif-; before some consonants, di-; often replacing obsolete des- < Old French

dis-

2 
variant of di-1 before s: dissyllable.

DIS

 
Trademark.
the Disney Channel: a cable television channel.

dis.

 
1.
distance.
2.
distant.
3.
distribute.

di

2   [dee]
noun Music.
a tone in the ascending chromatic scale between do and re.
Origin:
perhaps alteration of do2

Di

   [dahy]
noun
a female given name, form of Diana.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To Dis
Collins
World English Dictionary
dis (dɪs)
 
—vb
a variant spelling of diss

Dis (dɪs)
 
—n
1.  Orcus, Also called: Pluto the Roman god of the underworld
2.  the abode of the dead; underworld

diss or dis (dɪs)
 
—vb
slang chiefly (US) to treat (someone) with contempt
 
[C20: originally Black rap slang, short for disrespect]
 
dis or dis
 
—vb
 
[C20: originally Black rap slang, short for disrespect]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Etymonline
Word Origin & History

dis-
(assimilated as dif- before -f-), prefix meaning 1. "lack of, not" (e.g. dishonest); 2. "do the opposite of" (e.g. disallow); 3. "apart, away" (e.g. discard), from O.Fr. des-, from L. dis- "apart," from PIE
EXPAND
*dis- "apart, asunder" (cf. O.E. te-, O.S. ti-, O.H.G. ze-, Ger. zer-). The PIE root is a secondary form of *dwis- and is thus related to L. bis "twice" (originally *dvis) and to duo, on notion of "two-ways, in twain." In classical Latin, dis- paralelled de- and had much the same meaning, but in L.L. dis- came to be the favored form and this passed into O.Fr. as des-, the form used for new compound words formed in O.Fr., where it increasingly had a privative sense ("not"). In English, many of these words eventually were altered back to dis-, while in French many have been altered back to de-. The usual confusion prevails.

dis
also diss, slang, by 1980, shortening of disrespect or dismiss, originally in U.S. Black English, popularized by hip hop. Related: Dissed; dissing.
COLLAPSE
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
American Heritage
Medical Dictionary

dis- pref.

  1. Not: disjugate.

  2. Absence of; opposite of: disorientation.

  3. Undo; do the opposite of: dislocate.

  4. Deprive of; remove: dismember.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Cite This Source
Slang Dictionary

dis(s) definition


  1. tv.
    to belittle someone; to show disrespect for someone. (From disrespect.) : Please stop dissing my little sister. She didn't do any of those things.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source

dis(s) (on (so)) definition

[ˈdɪs...]
  1. in.
    to belittle [someone]; to show disrespect [for someone]. (From disrespect.) : Gary is such a complainer. All he does is diss.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
dis

  1. disease

  2. to be disrespectful toward

DIS

  1. Defense Investigative Service

  2. Disney Channel

  3. Walt Disney Co.

The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Partners:WordBloglinesCitysearchThe Daily BeastAsk AnswersAsk KidsLife123SendoriThesaurus
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
About Privacy Policy Terms of Use API Careers Advertise with Us Contact Us Help
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT
How many words do you know? FIND OUT