Synonyms of condescending

condescending 1 of 2

adjective

as in patronizing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• patronizing
• arrogant
• domineering
• disdainful
• bossy
• supercilious
• impudent
• dominant
• authoritarian
• uppity
• haughty
• magisterial
• snooty
• pretentious
• pontifical
• assumptive
• snobbish
• high-and-mighty
• sniffy
• bumptious
• saucy
• snobby
• egotistical
• pompous
• cavalier
• hifalutin
• dominating
• high-handed
• impertinent
• presumptuous
• huffy
• cocky
• boastful
• pontificating
• bombastic
• uppish
• conceited
• chesty
• smug
• narcissistic
• egocentric
• swaggering
• egoistical
• blusterous
• high-hat
• self-centered
• blustery
• peremptory
• superior
• vainglorious
• imperious
• lordly
• hubristic
• egotistic
• braggy
• important
• complacent
• presuming
• self-assertive
• overweening
• huffish
• toploftical
• highfalutin
• vain
• bragging
• masterful
• egoistic
• lofty
• braggart
• stuck-up
• self-asserting
• toplofty
• prideful
• self-satisfied
• stiff-necked
• self-complacent
• uninhibited
• self-conceited
• extraverted
• self-promoting
• proud
• self-flattering
• brash
• immodest
• self-pleased
• self-affected
• extroverted
• unreserved
• self-applauding
• self-loving
• orgulous
• forward

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• humble
• modest
• lowly
• unpretentious
• timid
• sheepish
• bashful
• shy
• subdued
• passive
• diffident
• introverted
• deferential
• shrinking
• demure
• meek
• submissive
• mousy
• acquiescent
• unobtrusive
• unassuming
• unassertive
• compliant
• unarrogant
• unaggressive
• yielding
• cringing
• quiet
• self-critical
• mousey
• self-doubting
• cowering
• reserved
• retiring
• overmodest

condescending

2 of 2

verb

present participle of condescend

1

as in stooping

to descend to a level that is beneath one's dignity

I will not condescend to answer the sore loser's charge that I cheated in order to win the race

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stooping
• deigning
• demeaning
• humiliating
• shaming
• humbling
• degrading
• debasing
• dishonoring
• discrediting
• disgracing
• lowering
• abasing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rising

2

as in cutting

to assume or treat with an air of superiority

wealthy people who tend to be condescending toward their poor relations

Synonyms & Similar Words

• patronizing
• cutting
• talking down (to)
• lording (it over)
• snubbing
• slighting
• cold-shouldering
• high-hatting
• queening (it over)