Scornful

3 definitions found

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

  Scornful \Scorn"ful\, a.
     1. Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.
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              Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun.
                                                    --Prior.


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              Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak.
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     2. Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. [Obs.]
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              The scornful mark of every open eye.  --Shak.
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     Syn: Contemptuous; disdainful; contumelious; reproachful;
          insolent.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Scorn"ful*ly}, adv. --
          {Scorn"ful*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scornful
       adj 1: expressing extreme contempt [syn: {contemptuous}, {disdainful},
               {insulting}]
       2: expressing offensive reproach [syn: {abusive}, {insulting},
          {opprobrious}, {scurrilous}]

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

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "scornful":
     abjuratory, arrogant, clannish, cliquish, contemptuous,
     contumelious, declinatory, deprecative, derisive, derisory,
     despising, disdainful, dismissive, disparaging, exclusive, haughty,
     high-handed, mocking, overweening, rejective, renunciative,
     scoffing, sneering, snide, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty,
     snotty, supercilious, superior, toploftical, toplofty, withering