disdainful : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: disdainful	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for disdainful
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disdainful adj expressing extreme contempt [syn: contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful] 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 Synonym(s): disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disdainful \Disdain"ful\, a. Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. From these Turning disdainful* to an equal good. --Akenside. -- {Disdain"fully}, adv. -- {Disdain"fulness}, n.