disdaining
Regarding with contempt
Disdaining is treating something as unworthy of regard or beneath one's dignity.
Someone disdaining advice refuses to consider it.
Someone disdaining manual labor considers it too lowly: Disdaining the easy route, she chose the harder path.
The word carries a note of contempt or superiority toward whatever is rejected.
Hostile dismissive feeling
- derisionContemptuous mockery
- disparagementCriticism meant to diminish
- loathingIntense, settled disgust
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
aversion · detestation · abhorrence · repugnance · sneering · condescension · contemptuousness · antipathy
Excessively high self-regard
- haughtyDisdainfully proud
- condescendingSuperior and dismissive manner
- superciliousArrogantly contemptuous of others
- imperiousArrogantly authoritative
patronizing · snobbish · pompous · overbearing · lofty · high-handed · self-important · lordly
Disregarding without consideration
- overlookingFailing to see or consider
- ignoringDeliberately not noticing
- neglectingFailing to attend to
- bypassingAvoiding by going around
discounting · undervaluing · downplaying · minimizing · slighting · snubbing · disregarding · writing off
Contemptuously refusing or dismissing
- rebuffingCurtly refusing or dismissing
- refusingDeclining to accept
- decliningDecreasing in strength
- repudiatingFormally refusing to acknowledge
renouncing · shunning · eschewing · forsaking · disavowing · repelling · casting aside · turning away
Mocking with contempt
- sneeringExpressing scorn facially
- jeeringVocal public mockery
- tauntingInsulting to provoke
- ridiculingMocking with contempt
mocking · scorning · jibing · deriding · laughing at
scorn
Hostile dismissive feeling
- derisionContemptuous mockery
- disparagementCriticism meant to diminish
- loathingIntense, settled disgust
revulsion · aversion · detestation · abhorrence · repugnance · sneering · condescension · contemptuousness · antipathy · disrespect
arrogant
Excessively high self-regard
- haughtyDisdainfully proud
- condescendingSuperior and dismissive manner
- superciliousArrogantly contemptuous of others
imperious · patronizing · snobbish · pompous · overbearing · lofty · high-handed · self-important · lordly · uppity
brushing off
Disregarding without consideration
- overlookingFailing to see or consider
- ignoringDeliberately not noticing
- neglectingFailing to attend to
bypassing · discounting · undervaluing · downplaying · minimizing · slighting · snubbing · disregarding · writing off · passing over
spurning
Contemptuously refusing or dismissing
repudiating · renouncing · shunning · eschewing · forsaking · disavowing · repelling · casting aside · turning away · pushing away
scoffing
Mocking with contempt
ridiculing · mocking · scorning · jibing · deriding · laughing at
- disrespectinsulting, belittling, demeaning, mocking, ridiculing
- mockerymockery, ridiculing, jeers, jeering, jibes
- rejection wordsrejected, rebuffed, spurned, snubbed, refused
disdainingadmiring
Feeling respect and approval
respecting · esteeming · revering · venerating · honoring
dignity, disdain, indignant, dignify, indignity, disdainful, deign, disdainfully, disdained