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Disdainful definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISDAINFUL, a.
1. Full of disdain; as disdainful soul.
2. Expressing disdain; as a disdainful look.
3. Contemptuous; scornful; haughty; indignant.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: expressing extreme contempt [syn: contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful]
2: 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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1542 full of or expressing disdain Synonyms: see proud • disdainfully adverb • disdainfulness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. showing disdain or contempt. Derivatives: disdainfully adv. disdainfulness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disdainful Dis*dain"ful, a. Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. From these Turning disdainful to an equal good. --Akenside. -- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

To be disdainful means to dislike something or someone because you think they are unimportant or not worth your attention. He is highly disdainful of anything to do with the literary establishment... = scornful, contemptuous ADJ: oft ADJ of n • disdainfully 'We know all about you,' she said disdainfully. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Scornful, contemptuous, supercilious, contumelious, haughty, cavalier.

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