Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hold against

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.07 in modern English

Syllables: hold a-gainst
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To think less of (someone) for (something they have done).

Example Sentences

"He was awful to me when we were young, but I don't hold that against him. We were children then."
"Gedeon Van Rompay had the dubious distinction of being the only Site employee personally hired by Edwin Falkirk, former All Sections Chief and perennial piece of human trash. Lillian had found it easy not to hold this against the man, but only because there were so many other odious things about him to choose from. He was misogynist, he was chauvinistic, he was boorish, he was violent. Just about the only metric on which she rated Van Rompay higher than Falkirk was transphobia; the big man made no distinction between varieties of womanhood, feeling superior to all of them equally."

Inflected Forms

holds against (present, singular) holding against (participle, present) held against (participle, past) held against (past)

Questions

What does hold against mean?: To think less of (someone) for (something they have done).

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