Word Meanings - CONTEMPTUOUSNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTEMPTUOUSNESS)
- Arrogance
- Haughtiness
- contemptuousness
- overbearingness
- hauteur
- browbeating
- loftiness
- self-conceit
- stateliness
- vainglory
- insolence
- self-importance
- assumption
- discourtesy
- Contumely
- Contemptuousness
- scornfulness
- arrogance
- disrespect
- obloquy
- Indignity
- Insult
- rudeness
- opprobrium
- disgrace
- slight
- reproach
- ignominy
- outrage
- affront
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONTEMPTUOUSNESS)
Related words: (words related to CONTEMPTUOUSNESS)
- COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - FLATTER
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc. - OUTRAGEOUS
Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous - REPROACHER
One who reproaches. - IGNOMINY
a deprivation of one's good name); in- not + nomen name: cf. F. 1. Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy. Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest. Addison. Vice begins in mistake, - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - COMMENDER
One who commends or praises. - HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - OPPROBRIUM
Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey. - INSULT
1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront; - SLIGHTEN
To slight. B. Jonson. - INSULTMENT
Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak. - SLIGHTINGLY
In a slighting manner. - HONORABLENESS
1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. - CONTUMELY
Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. Shak. Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely. - NOTICE
1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge - SELF-CONCEIT
Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - BEFLATTER
To flatter excessively. - DISAPPROVE
1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline - MISOBSERVE
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.