'Scornful' definitions:
Definition of 'scornful'
From: WordNet
adjective
Definition of 'Scornful'
From: GCIDE
- Scornful \Scorn"ful\, a.
- 1. Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful. [1913 Webster]
- Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The scornful mark of every open eye. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Contemptuous; disdainful; contumelious; reproachful; insolent. [1913 Webster] -- {Scorn"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Scorn"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scornful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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