'Disdainful' definitions:
Definition of 'disdainful'
From: WordNet
adjective
adjective
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"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
Definition of 'Disdainful'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'disdainful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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