contemptuous
adjective/kənˈtemptʃuəs/
/kənˈtemptʃuəs/
- feeling or showing that you have no respect for somebody/something synonym scornful
- She gave him a contemptuous look.
- The company has shown a contemptuous disregard for Henry’s complaints.
- Her voice sounded almost contemptuous.
- contemptuous of somebody/something He was contemptuous of everything I did.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- sound
- utterly
- almost
- openly
- …
- of
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘despising law and order’): from medieval Latin contemptuosus, from Latin contemptus ‘contempt’, from contemnere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + temnere ‘despise’.Definitions on the go
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