a01891109
| type | s |
| lex_filenum | 00 |
| def | having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy |
| examples | 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 |
| Outgoing links | |
| Similar to | proud |
| Derivationally related form | supercilious → superciliousness |
| Derivationally related form | overbearing → overbearingness |
| Derivationally related form | lordly → lordliness |
| Derivationally related form | imperious → imperiousness |
| Derivationally related form | haughty → haughtiness |
| Derivationally related form | disdainful → disdainfulness |
| Incoming links | |
| Similar to | proud |
| Derived from adjective | haughtily → haughty |
| Derived from adjective | disdainfully → disdainful |
| Derived from adjective | imperiously → imperious |
| Derivationally related form | lordliness → lordly |
| Derivationally related form | haughtiness → haughty |
| Derivationally related form | disdainfulness → disdainful |
| Derivationally related form | superciliousness → supercilious |
| Derivationally related form | overbearingness → overbearing |
| Derivationally related form | imperiousness → imperious |
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