Disdainful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disdainful \Dis*dain"ful\, a.
     Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous;
     haughty.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           From these


           Turning disdainful to an equal good.     --Akenside.
     -- {Dis*dain"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*dain"ful*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disdainful
       adj 1: expressing extreme contempt [syn: {contemptuous}, {insulting},
               {scornful}]
       2: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of
          those one views as unworthy; "some economists are
          disdainful of their colleagues in other social
          disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners
          were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very
          sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my
          clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious
          camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
          [syn: {haughty}, {lordly}, {prideful}, {sniffy}, {supercilious},
           {swaggering}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "disdainful":
     abjuratory, arrogant, audacious, bold, brash, brassy, brazen,
     bumptious, cavalier, challenging, cheeky, clannish, cliquish,
     cocky, cold, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, daring, declinatory,
     defiant, defying, derisive, despising, dismissive, disregardful,
     exclusive, familiar, forward, greatly daring, haughty,
     high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, hubristic, impertinent,
     impudent, insolent, insulting, jeering, lordly, mocking, obtrusive,
     overpresumptuous, overweening, pert, pompous, presuming,
     presumptuous, prideful, procacious, proud, pushy, regal,
     regardless of consequences, rejective, renunciative, saucy,
     scornful, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty,
     stuck-up, supercilious, superior, toploftical, toplofty, uppish,
     uppity, withering