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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. expressing extreme contempt;
[syn: contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful]

2. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy;
- Example: "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"
- Example: "haughty aristocrats"
- Example: "his lordly manners were offensive"
- Example: "walked with a prideful swagger"
- Example: "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"
- Example: "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"
- Example: "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
[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]