[syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
disdainful
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "disdainful":
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