scornful Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite expressing extreme contempt
    disdainful; insulting; contemptuous.

WordNet


Scorn"ful adjective
Definitions
  1. Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.
    Scornful of winter's frost and summer's sun. Prior.
    Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. Shak.
  2. Treated with scorn; exciting scorn. Obs.
    The scornful mark of every open eye. Shak.
    Syn. -- Contemptuous; disdainful; contumelious; reproachful; insolent. -- Scorn"ful*ly, adv. -- Scorn"ful*ness, n.

Webster 1913