English-Thai Dictionary

contemptuous

ADJ ซึ่ง ดูหมิ่น หรือ เหยียดหยาม ผู้อื่น  ซึ่ง แสดง การ ดูหมิ่น  ซึ่ง สบประมาท  disdainful insulting scornful sueng-du-min-rue-yiad-yam-phu-uen

 

contemptuously

ADV อย่าง ดูถูก ผู้อื่น  disdainfully scornfully yang-du-tuk-pu-uen

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONTEMPTUOUS

a.Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; as contemptuous language or manner; a contemptuous opinion. Applied to men, apt to despise; haughty; insolent; as a nation, proud, severe, contemptuous.

 

CONTEMPTUOUSLY

adv. In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and treated contemptuously.

 

CONTEMPTUOUSNESS

n.Disposition to contempt; act of contempt; insolence; scornfulness; haughtiness.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CONTEMPTUOUS

CONTEMPTUOUS Con *temp "tu *ous, a.

 

Defn: Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome. .. entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews. Atterbury.

 

Syn. -- Scornful; insolent; haughty; disdainful; supercilious; insulting; contumelious. -- Contemptuous, Contemptible. These words, from their similarity of sound, are sometimes erroneously interchanged, as when a person speaks of having "a very contemptible opinion of another. " Contemptible is applied to that which is the object of contempt; as, contemptible conduct; acontemptible fellow. Contemptuous is applied to that which indicates contempts; as, a contemptuous look; a contemptuous remark; contemptuous treatment. A person, or whatever is personal, as an action, an expression, a feeling, an opinion, may be either contemptuous or contemptible; a thing may be contemptible, but can not be contemptuous.

 

CONTEMPTUOUSLY

CONTEMPTUOUSLY Con *temp "tu *ous *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.

 

CONTEMPTUOUSNESS

CONTEMPTUOUSNESS Con *temp "tu *ous *ness, n.

 

Defn: Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

contemptuous

con temp tu ous |kənˈtem (p )CHo͞oəs kənˈtemptʃuəs | ▶adjective showing contempt; scornful: she was intolerant and contemptuous of the majority of the human race. DERIVATIVES con temp tu ous ly adverb, con temp tu ous ness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘despising law and order ’): from medieval Latin contemptuosus, from Latin contemptus ‘contempt, ’ from contemnere (see contemn ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

contemptuous

con |temp ¦tu |ous |kənˈtɛm (p )tjʊəs | ▶adjective showing contempt; scornful: she was intolerant and contemptuous of the majority of the human race. DERIVATIVES contemptuously adverb, contemptuousness noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘despising law and order ’): from medieval Latin contemptuosus, from Latin contemptus ‘contempt ’, from contemnere (see contemn ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

contemptuous

contemptuous adjective the contemptuous look on your face says it all: scornful, disdainful, disrespectful, insulting, insolent, derisive, mocking, sneering, scoffing, withering, scathing, snide; condescending, supercilious, haughty, proud, superior, arrogant, dismissive, aloof; informal high and mighty, snotty, sniffy. ANTONYMS respectful. WORD TOOLKIT See dismissive . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

contemptuous

contemptuous adjective he spoke in a coldly contemptuous tone: scornful, disdainful, disrespectful, insulting, insolent, full of contempt; derisory, derisive, mocking, sneering, jeering, scoffing, taunting, withering, scathing, snide; condescending, supercilious, arrogant, cavalier, high and mighty, imperious, proud, vain; informal sniffy, snotty, on one's high horse; archaic contumelious. ANTONYMS respectful. WORD TOOLKIT contemptuous See dismissive . Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

contemptuous

con temp tu ous /kəntém (p )tʃuəs |-tju- /形容詞 1 〈人が 〉 «…に対して » 軽蔑 （けいべつ ）的な, 軽蔑を示す «of » .2 【危険 困難などを 】恐れないで, 物ともせず «of » .～ly 副詞 軽蔑して, 傲慢 （ごうまん ）に .