Reproachful

3 definitions found

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

  Reproachful \Re*proach"ful\ (-f?l), a.
     1. Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding;
        opprobrious; abusive.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The reproachful speeches . . .


              That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a
        reproachful life.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Opprobrious; contumelious; abusive; offensive;
          insulting; contemptuous; scornful; insolent; scurrilous;
          disreputable; discreditable; dishonorable; shameful;
          disgraceful; scandalous; base; vile; infamous.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Re*proach"ful*ly} (r?-pr?ch"f?l-l?),
          adv. -- {Re*proach"ful*ness}, n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reproachful
       adj : expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
             [syn: {admonitory}, {admonishing}, {reproving}]

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

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "reproachful":
     abusive, admonitory, blackening, blameful, censorious,
     condemnatory, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, denunciatory,
     deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, disapproving,
     disparaging, execrating, execrative, execratory, hypercritical,
     invective, inveighing, judgmental, objurgatory, priggish,
     reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, scoffing, scolding, upbraiding,
     vilifying, vituperative