What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Disrespectful vs Supercilious - What's the difference?

disrespectful | supercilious | Related terms |

Disrespectful is a related term of supercilious.


As adjectives the difference between disrespectful and supercilious

is that disrespectful is lacking respect while supercilious is arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.

disrespectful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • lacking respect
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * respectful

    Derived terms

    * disrespectfully * disrespectfulness

    supercilious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.
  • * 2013 May 23, , " British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
  • Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious , contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.
  • *
  • Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * superciliously * superciliousness