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disdainful

English

Etymology

disdain +? -ful

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d?s?de?n.f?l/

Adjective

disdainful (comparative more disdainful, superlative most disdainful)

  1. Showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy.
    He was disdainful of those he thought of as the little people. He openly sneered at them. They mocked him behind his back.
    She glimpsed at the people whom she had left behind, and smirked in the most disdainful manner towards them.

Synonyms

  • despising, scornful, contemptuous

Antonyms

  • respectful

Derived terms

  • disdainfully

Translations

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domineering

English

Verb

domineering

  1. present participle of domineer

Adjective

domineering (comparative more domineering, superlative most domineering)

  1. overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian

Synonyms

  • bossy, assertive, dominant, forceful, commanding, pushy, strong-willed, arbitrary, oppressive, regnant
  • See also Thesaurus:bossy

Antonyms

  • submissive

Translations

Noun

domineering (plural domineerings)

  1. The act of one who domineers.
    • In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.

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