What is another word for contemptuous?
655 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ kəntˈɛmpt͡ʃuːəs], [ kəntˈɛmptʃuːəs], [ k_ə_n_t_ˈɛ_m_p_tʃ_uː_ə_s]Table of Contents
Similar words for contemptuous:- all (adjective)
- arrogant (adjective)
- arrogant, insolent (adjective)
- contemptuous (adjective)
- cynical (adjective)
- derisive (adjective)
- discourteous (adjective)
- disdainful (adjective)
- disrespectful (adjective)
- hardened (adjective)
- haughty (adjective)
- hidebound (adjective)
- high and mighty (adjective)
- insolent (adjective)
- intolerant (adjective)
- ironic/ironical (adjective)
- ironical (adjective)
- irreverent (adjective)
- prideful (adjective)
- proud (adjective)
- sarcastic (adjective)
- scornful (adjective)
- self-respecting (adjective)
- supercilious (adjective)
- contemptuous (noun)
- other synonyms
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Synonyms for Contemptuous:
adj.
•all (adjective) •arrogant (adjective)- superior,
- know it all,
- snootiest,
- most coldshoulder,
- more know it all,
- selfimportant,
- sniffiest,
- puffed up,
- most biggety,
- pretentious,
- more cold shoulder,
- most cold shoulder,
- high handed,
- pre sumptuous,
- high-handed,
- more coldshoulder,
- self important,
- more bragging,
- peremptory,
- most bragging,
- more swaggering,
- more cold-shoulder,
- most know-it-all,
- smartiest,
- most cold-shoulder,
- more know-it-all,
- self-important,
- Over-bearing,
- more biggety,
- most know it all,
- up-pity,
- pre-sumptuous,
- sniffier,
- up pity,
- smartier,
- most swaggering,
- over bearing.
- cool,
- cavalier,
- upstage,
- snotty,
- snobbish,
- contumelious,
- condescending,
- snooty,
- hard-nosed,
- sardonic,
- bold,
- temperamental,
- high hat,
- cheeky,
- derisory,
- derisive,
- dog it,
- on high horse,
- sneering,
- audacious,
- snippy,
- hard,
- uppity.
- mis-anthropic,
- un believing,
- un-believing,
- mis anthropic,
- more misanthropical,
- mis-anthropical,
- mis anthropical,
- most misanthropical,
- wry.
- more out of line,
- most out-of-line,
- smartalecky,
- flippest,
- most taunting,
- most out of line,
- Gally,
- galliest,
- more out-of-line,
- gallier,
- more taunting.
- tactless,
- brutish,
- uncivilized,
- coarse,
- impolite,
- caddish,
- rude,
- brash,
- vulgar,
- ill-mannered,
- uncivil,
- discourteous,
- impertinent,
- crude,
- barbarous,
- uncouth.
- in different,
- anti pathetic,
- more contemning,
- anti-pathetic,
- most scouting,
- more despising,
- most contemning,
- hoity toity,
- more scouting,
- most repudiating,
- more toplofty,
- in-different,
- more repudiating,
- hoitytoity,
- un sympathetic,
- high-and-mighty,
- most high and mighty,
- top lofty,
- more high and mighty,
- most toplofty,
- more high-and-mighty,
- un-sympathetic,
- more rejecting,
- most rejecting,
- top-lofty,
- most despising.
- Casehardened,
- unashamed,
- coldhearted,
- hardbitten,
- hard-as-nails,
- case-hardened,
- unsubmissive,
- hard as nails,
- Unrepenting,
- hardboiled.
- irreverent,
- candid,
- sacrilegious,
- outrageous,
- outspoken,
- presumptuous,
- callous,
- Procacious,
- off-base,
- brazen,
- flagrant,
- defiant,
- insubordinate,
- mouthy,
- saucy.
- most outraged,
- out-raged,
- most workedup,
- most short-fuse,
- one sided,
- most shortfuse,
- most communist,
- un indulgent,
- un-fair,
- fractious,
- most short fuse,
- un forbearing,
- shortfuse,
- more racialist,
- individualistic,
- most tilted,
- un-forbearing,
- in tolerant,
- un-fairest,
- most worked-up,
- more unindulgent,
- most chauvinistic,
- most racialist,
- in-tolerant,
- un-indulgent,
- more communist,
- tilted,
- un willing,
- un charitable,
- most worked up,
- most xenophobic,
- un-willing,
- in-flexible,
- more shortfuse,
- more chauvinistic,
- un-fairer,
- smallminded,
- most unindulgent,
- xenophobic,
- unindulgent,
- narrowminded,
- small minded,
- narrow minded,
- un-charitable,
- onesided,
- more outraged,
- more workedup,
- un fair,
- more short fuse,
- more tilted,
- more short-fuse,
- more worked up,
- un fairest,
- un fairer,
- up-set,
- in flexible,
- more xenophobic,
- more worked-up,
- out raged,
- workedup.
- more ironic,
- more doubleedged,
- more jibing,
- most doubleedged,
- most uncomplimentary,
- most chaffing,
- more uncomplimentary,
- more double edged,
- in congruous,
- most jibing,
- more double-edged,
- un complimentary,
- most paradoxical,
- most double edged,
- most backbiting,
- scathing,
- more paradoxical,
- most double-edged,
- double edged,
- un-complimentary,
- quick witted,
- more backbiting,
- in-congruous,
- doubleedged,
- mordant,
- more chaffing,
- most ironical,
- quickwitted.
- un godly,
- most irreverential,
- un hallowed,
- unholy,
- un-godlier,
- un godliest,
- un-holy,
- un godlier,
- un-holiest,
- un-godly,
- un holier,
- more irreverential,
- un holiest,
- un-holier,
- un holy,
- tongue-in-cheek,
- un-godliest.
- dis missive,
- more dismissive,
- dis-missive,
- most dismissive,
- selfsatisfied,
- self-respecting,
- self satisfied.
n.
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- respect.
Other synonyms:
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- egotistic,
- ironic,
- opprobrious.
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- rebellious.
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- lip.
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- flip.
- gratuitous,
- virulent,
- infidel,
- cutting,
- acerbic,
- catty,
- cynic,
- ironically,
- egotistical,
- exclusive,
- impudent,
- rotten,
- evil,
- disagreeable,
- depreciative,
- disdainfully,
- fresh,
- Objurgatory,
- disguise,
- toffee-nosed,
- profane,
- blame,
- captious,
- hide,
- humiliate,
- offensively,
- disparagement,
- denunciatory,
- lofty,
- gross,
- prejudice,
- complacent,
- pessimistically,
- reprehensible,
- smother,
- vicious,
- degrading,
- shameful,
- Disrespectable,
- nasty,
- despondently,
- wise,
- inconsiderate,
- ungenerous,
- Castigatory,
- distrustfully,
- carping,
- aspersion,
- cheapen,
- abhorrent,
- defy,
- demeaning,
- smart-ass,
- belittle,
- disparagingly,
- godless,
- abusively,
- depreciatory,
- flout,
- detraction,
- disreputable,
- invective,
- cruel,
- disgrace,
- trenchant,
- denigrative,
- Disdained,
- insultingly,
- cliquish,
- derogate,
- wicked,
- acidulous,
- sullenly,
- derisively,
- hypercritical,
- wise-ass,
- gloomily,
- brassy,
- lah-di-dah,
- bury,
- vain,
- suppress,
- crusty,
- despicable,
- monstrous,
- sniff at,
- sinful,
- renunciative,
- contemn,
- trifle with,
- scorner,
- priggish,
- depreciate,
- off-hand,
- invidious,
- Scurrile,
- denigratory,
- biting,
- defame,
- hifalutin,
- condemn,
- Execratory,
- notorious,
- ungentlemanly,
- pejorative,
- regal,
- sassy,
- harsh,
- loftiness,
- blameful,
- heathen,
- acrid,
- hateful,
- denigrate,
- spiteful,
- uncalled-for,
- arrant,
- shocking,
- awful,
- blasphemous,
- libellous,
- dejectedly,
- malevolent,
- imperious,
- Detractory,
- calumniatory,
- mean,
- disparage,
- overbearing,
- despised,
- utter,
- nervy,
- condescendingly,
- shoddy,
- nefarious,
- blatant,
- challenging,
- despising,
- Cavilling,
- caustic,
- pagan,
- cold shoulder,
- deprecate,
- acidic,
- untrustworthy,
- caustically,
- overweening,
- out-and-out,
- questionable,
- shameless,
- obnoxiously,
- ignominious,
- Execrative,
- complete,
- Abjuratory,
- sneeringly,
- impious,
- bitchy,
- minimizing,
- arrogance,
- detractive,
- glumly,
- superciliousness,
- acerb,
- daring,
- lordly,
- vile,
- sadly,
- treacherous,
- poisonous,
- unhelpful,
- critic,
- pompous,
- shabby,
- Derogatorily,
- Decrying,
- la-de-da,
- base,
- Vilifying,
- poor,
- reproachfully,
- discreditable,
- snobby,
- on one's high horse,
- acid,
- self-satisfied,
- cocky,
- scurvy,
- slightingly,
- unrespectable,
- Execrating,
- offensive,
- low,
- unladylike,
- stuck-up,
- deprecatory,
- louche,
- stern,
- taunting,
- abject,
- vituperative,
- pert,
- obvious,
- repulsively,
- injurious,
- satirically,
- miserably,
- vilify,
- opprobriously,
- heinous,
- fastidious,
- censorious,
- set at naught,
- wounding,
- Reprobative,
- Despiser,
- slighting,
- demean,
- egregious,
- bad,
- Disvaluation,
- smug,
- Disregardful,
- unworthy,
- suspiciously,
- incisive,
- conceal,
- bitter,
- satiric,
- reproachful,
- affected,
- scoffer,
- putting on airs,
- atheist,
- sarcastically,
- insolence,
- disbelieving,
- overcritical,
- Aspersive,
- grandiose,
- degrade,
- grand,
- swelled-headed,
- Defying,
- despise,
- la-di-da,
- atrocious,
- barefaced,
- stuffy,
- depreciation,
- uppish,
- snide,
- defamatory,
- Inveighing,
- glaring,
- conceited,
- iniquitous,
- unpleasant,
- calumny,
- downplay,
- traduce,
- chutzpadik,
- idolatrous,
- belittling,
- denigrating,
- shady,
- acrimonious,
- ungodly,
- dismissive,
- critical,
- Malapert,
- haughtiness,
- scornfully,
- infamous,
- Contemner,
- Declinatory,
- mockingly,
- conspicuous,
- irreligious,
- disgraceful,
- contemptible,
- condemnatory,
- malicious,
- damning,
- debase,
- calumnious,
- scandalous,
- bumptious,
- malignant,
- back-biting,
- grudging,
- damnatory,
- derogation,
- judgmental,
- smart-alecky,
- swaggering,
- defamation,
- unfriendly,
- scurrilous,
- derogative,
- malefic,
- open,
- rejective,
- libelous,
- venomous,
- dubious,
- rank,
- dishonourable,
- hoity-toity,
- contemptuously,
- Reviling,
- sneeze at,
- jeeringly,
- smart,
- slanderous,
- blackening,
- clannish,
- disrepute,
- minimize,
- bluff,
- malign,
- flagitious,
- unbelieving,
- patronizing,
- decry,
- disapprovingly,
- villainous,
- swollen-headed,
- vainglorious,
- Mordantly.
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Adjective
derogatory.
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Antonyms for Contemptuous:
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adj.
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arrogant, insolent
polite, humble, praising, respected, shy, flattering, respectful.
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Other antonyms:
kindly, accepting, Laudative, kindhearted, warmhearted, warm, tolerant, kind, laudatory, sympathetic, unmalicious, courteous.
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arrogant, insolent