supercilious
UKsuːpəsiliəs
US'su:pə'sılıəs
معنی فارسی
مغرور بزرگي فروش
معنی کامل و مثالها
/-sil´ē ǝs/adj.
● پرافاده، پرنخوت، پر بادوبروت، متکبر، تکبرآمیز
a supercilious smile
لبخند تکبرآمیز
تعریف انگلیسی
adjective
- having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy “some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines” “haughty aristocrats” “his lordly manners were offensive” “walked with a prideful swagger” “very sniffy about breaches of etiquette” “his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air” “a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer”
- expressive of contempt “curled his lip in a supercilious smile” “spoke in a sneering jeering manner” “makes many a sharp comparison but never a mean or snide one”
مترادفها
adjective
1. Haughty, overbearing, domineering, dictatorial, arrogant, proud, high, lofty, overweening, consequential, lordly, intolerant, insolent, vainglorious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty.
2. Haughty, disdainful, contemptuous, proud, arrogant, lordly, consequential, scornful.