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Adjective disdainful has 2 senses

• disdainful(s = adj.all) contemptuous, insulting, scornful - expressing extreme contempt; Array
Derived form noun disdainfulness₁

• disdainful(s = adj.all) haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering - 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"
Derived form noun disdainfulness₁

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THESAURUS

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

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Pride

N pride, dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti, pride, haughtiness, high notions, hauteur, vainglory, crest, arrogance, proud man, highflier, fine gentleman, fine lady, dignified, stately, proud, proud-crested, lordly, baronial, lofty- minded, highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high- plumed, high-flown, high-toned, haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown, vainglorious, purse-proud, fine, proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer, bloated with pride, supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential, arrogant, unblushing, stiff, stiff-necked, starch, perked stuck-up, in buckram, strait- laced, prim, on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes, on stilts, en grand seigneur, with head erect, odi profanum vulgus et arceo, a duke's revenues on her back, disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon, pride in their port, defiance in their eye.

Contempt

N contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt, despisal, despiciency, despisement, vilipendency, contumely, slight, sneer, spurn, by-word, despect, contemptuousness, scornful eye, smile of contempt, derision, despisedness, contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier, derisive, contemptible, despicable, pitiable, pitiful, despised, downtrodden, unenvied, unrespectable (unworthy), contemptuously, Int, a fig for, bah!, never mind!, away with!, hang it!, fiddlededee!, a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn, I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a.

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