Synonyms for Contemptuous:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • insulting,
  • contemptuous.
  •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.
  •arrogant, insolent (adjective)
  • 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.
  •contemptuous (adjective)
  • disparaging,
  • satirical,
  • Ridiculing,
  • antipathetic,
  • jeering,
  • flippant,
  • deprecative,
  • mocking,
  • abusive.
  •cynical (adjective)
  • mis-anthropic,
  • un believing,
  • un-believing,
  • mis anthropic,
  • more misanthropical,
  • mis-anthropical,
  • mis anthropical,
  • most misanthropical,
  • wry.
  •derisive (adjective)
  • 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.
  •discourteous (adjective)
  • tactless,
  • brutish,
  • uncivilized,
  • coarse,
  • impolite,
  • caddish,
  • rude,
  • brash,
  • vulgar,
  • ill-mannered,
  • uncivil,
  • discourteous,
  • impertinent,
  • crude,
  • barbarous,
  • uncouth.
  •disdainful (adjective)
  • 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.
  •disrespectful (adjective)
  • profanatory,
  • ill-bred,
  • Disgracious,
  • Unfilial,
  • illbred,
  • aweless,
  • bad-mannered.
  •hardened (adjective)
  • Casehardened,
  • unashamed,
  • coldhearted,
  • hardbitten,
  • hard-as-nails,
  • case-hardened,
  • unsubmissive,
  • hard as nails,
  • Unrepenting,
  • hardboiled.
  •haughty (adjective)
  • re served,
  • over weening,
  • re-served,
  • over-weening,
  • stuckup.
  •hidebound (adjective)
  • closeminded,
  • close minded,
  • narrer,
  • hidebound,
  • narrest.
  •high and mighty (adjective)
  • high mighty,
  • highfalutin.
  •insolent (adjective)
  • irreverent,
  • candid,
  • sacrilegious,
  • outrageous,
  • outspoken,
  • presumptuous,
  • callous,
  • Procacious,
  • off-base,
  • brazen,
  • flagrant,
  • defiant,
  • insubordinate,
  • mouthy,
  • saucy.
  •intolerant (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ironic/ironical (adjective)
  • 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.
  •ironical (adjective)
  • most cynic,
  • more cynic.
  •irreverent (adjective)
  • 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.
  •prideful (adjective)
  • on ones high horse,
  • on one high horse.
  •proud (adjective)
  • dis missive,
  • more dismissive,
  • dis-missive,
  • most dismissive,
  • selfsatisfied,
  • self-respecting,
  • self satisfied.
  •sarcastic (adjective)
  • more needling,
  • dis-illusioned,
  • more cussed,
  • dis illusioned,
  • more snarling,
  • most needling,
  • most twitting,
  • needling,
  • more weisenheiming,
  • most weisenheiming,
  • most cussed,
  • most snarling,
  • more twitting.
  •scornful (adjective)
  • more belittling,
  • hyper critical,
  • most belittling,
  • hyper-critical.
  •self-respecting (adjective)
  • selfrespecting,
  • self respecting.
  •supercilious (adjective)
  • snobbiest.

• n.

  •
  • contempt,
  • derogatory,
  • familiarity breeds contempt.
  •
  • respect.
  •contemptuous (noun)
  • withering,
  • insolent.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • egotistic,
  • ironic,
  • opprobrious.
  •
  • rebellious.
  •
  • lip.
  •
  • flip.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Contemptuous:

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    derogatory.

Antonyms for Contemptuous:

• adj.

  • arrogant, insolent
    polite, humble, praising, respected, shy, flattering, respectful.
  • Other antonyms:
    kindly, accepting, Laudative, kindhearted, warmhearted, warm, tolerant, kind, laudatory, sympathetic, unmalicious, courteous.