Word Study
scornful
CIDE DICTIONARY
scornful, a.
- Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful. [1913 Webster]"Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun." [1913 Webster]"Dart not scornful glances from those eyes." [1913 Webster]
- Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. [1913 Webster]"The scornful mark of every open eye." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Contemptuous; disdainful; contumelious; reproachful; insolent.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
scornful, adj. (often foll. by of) full of scorn; contemptuous.
Derivative
scornfully adv. scornfulness n.
THESAURUS
scornful
abjuratory, arrogant, clannish, cliquish, contemptuous, contumelious, declinatory, deprecative, derisive, derisory, despising, disdainful, dismissive, disparaging, exclusive, haughty, high-handed, mocking, overweening, rejective, renunciative, scoffing, sneering, snide, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, supercilious, superior, toploftical, toplofty, witheringROGET THESAURUS
scornful
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.For further exploring for "scornful" in Webster Dictionary Online