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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disdain, superiority |
| Synonyms: | airs, civility, deference, haughtiness, loftiness, lordliness, patronage, patronizing attitude, superciliousness, toleration |
| Antonyms: | friendliness, humility, inferiority |
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| Main Entry: | deference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obedience, compliance |
| Synonyms: | acquiescence, capitulation, complaisance, condescension, docility, obeisance, submission, yielding |
| Notes: | deference is a courteous expression of regard or respect, while difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar |
| Antonyms: | disobedience, impoliteness, noncompliance |
| Main Entry: | hauteur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrogance |
| Synonyms: | airs, audacity, conceit, conceitedness, condescension, contempt, disdain, disdainfulness, egotism, gall, haughtiness, high-handedness, nerve, pomposity, pompousness, presumption, pride, self-importance, snobbishness, vanity |
| Main Entry: | humiliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | embarrassment |
| Synonyms: | abasement, affront, chagrin, comedown, comeuppance, condescension, confusion, degradation, discomfiture, disgrace, dishonor, humbling, ignominy, indignity, loss of face, mental pain, mortification, put-down, resignation, self-abasement, shame, submission, submissiveness, touché |
| Antonyms: | elevation, flattery, glorification, praise, success, triumph |
| Main Entry: | mortification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humiliation |
| Synonyms: | abasement, affront, bring down, chagrin, condescension, degradation, disgrace, dishonor, embarrassment, humbling, ignominy, loss of face, put-down, resignation, shame |
| Main Entry: | pride |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrogance, self-importance |
| Synonyms: | airs, assumption, big-headedness, cockiness, conceit, condescension, contumely, disdain, disdainfulness, egoism, egotism, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, huff, immodesty, insolence, loftiness, narcissism, overconfidence, patronage, pragmatism, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, proud flesh, self-exaltation, self-love, smugness, snobbery, superbity, superciliousness, swagger, swelled head, vainglory, vanity |
| Antonyms: | humility, modesty, shyness, timidity |
| Main Entry: | vainglory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pride |
| Synonyms: | arrogance, big-headedness, boastfulness, bragging, cockiness, conceit, condescension, egoism, egotism, haughtiness, huff, overconfidence, patronage, presumption, pretension, self-importance, smugness, snobbery, strutting, swagger, swelled head, vanity |
| Main Entry: | high horse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | haughty attitude |
| Synonyms: | condescension, hoity-toitiness, patronization |
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| Concept: | Contempt. |
| Category: | 2. Moral sentiments |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt; despisal, despiciency; despisement; vilipendency, contumely; slight, sneer, spurn, by-word; despect., contemptuousness; scornful eye; smile of contempt; derision (disrespect)., [State of being despised] despisedness.
-verbs
despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by (neglect)., look down upon; hold cheap, hold in contempt, hold in disrespect; think nothing of, think small beer of; make light of; underestimate; esteem slightly, esteem of small or no account; take no account of, care nothing for; set no store by; not care a straw, sneeze at (unimportance) [more]; set at naught, laugh in one's sleeve, laugh up one's sleeve, snap one's fingers at, shrug one's shoulders, turn up one's nose at, pooh-pooh, "damn with faint praise" [Pope]; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas; laugh at (be disrespectful)., point the finger of scorn, hold up to scorn, laugh to scorn; scout, hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at., turn one's back upon, turn a cold shoulder upon; tread upon, trample upon, trample under foot; spurn, kick; fling to the winds (repudiate); send away with a flea in the ear.
-adjectives
contemptuous; disdainful, scornful; withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier; derisive., contemptible, despicable; pitiable; pitiful (unimportant); despised; downtrodden; unenvied.
-adverbs
contemptuously.
-phrases
"a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn" [Paradise Lost]; "I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman" [Julius Caesar].
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| Antonyms: | respect |
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