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Definition of Disdainful
1. Adjective. Expressing extreme contempt.
Similar to: Disrespectful
Derivative terms: Contempt, Contempt, Contempt, Contemptuousness, Disdainfulness
2. Adjective. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy. "A more swaggering mood than usual"
Similar to: Proud
Derivative terms: Disdainfulness, Haughtiness, Imperiousness, Lordliness, Overbearingness, Superciliousness
Definition of Disdainful
1. a. Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty.
Definition of Disdainful
1. Adjective. Showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disdainful
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disdainful
Literary usage of Disdainful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English by Charles John Smith (1893)
"SCORNFUL («M SCORN} is an energetic form of this, and a positive expression of
the ill-desert or utter meanness of others ; while disdainful expresses ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Adverse in arms against him Peleus' Son Show'd like some hurtful lion, hardly
press'd By a whole village hunting to the death ; Careless, disdainful first, ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Thunder peals, flute-music, the laugh of Pan and the nymphs, the clear disdainful
whisper of cold stoicism, and the hurly-burly of a country fair, ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"VII The Gael beheld him grim the while, And answered with disdainful smile: I
marked thee send delighted eye ' Saxon, from yonder mountain high, ..."
5. Selections from Fénelon by Mary Wilder Tileston (1879)
"EVERYTHING like a proud or disdainful manner, all that savors of ridicule or
censoriousness, indicates a soul full of itself, unconscious of its own faults, ..."
6. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... groaning, as it were, to be delivered from the abuses proceeding from disdainful
aspersions of ignorant, and from the intemperance of sinful man. ..."
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