'Reproachful' definitions:
Definition of 'reproachful'
From: WordNet
adjective
Expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective [syn: admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving]
Definition of 'Reproachful'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'reproachful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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