Condescending

Adjective

 * 1) Assuming a tone of superiority, or a patronizing attitude.
 * Quit talking to me in that condescending tone! You always treat me like a child – ugh!

Verb
condescending



Thesaurus
arrogant, belittling, big, contemptuous, disdainful, domineering, haughty, high-faluting, high-flown, high-handed, high-hat, high-headed, high-nosed, hoity-toity, imperious, lofty, overbearing, patronizing, pompous, priggish, proud, purse-proud, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, stuck-up, superior, toplofty, uppish, uppity, upstage

Adjective

 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: (tone of superiority) ; (patronizing attitude)
 * French:
 * German:
 * Macedonian: снисходлив
 * Macedonian: снисходлив


 * Norwegian: nedlatende
 * Polish: protekcjonalny
 * Portuguese: condescendente
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: sneshodljiv
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: Nedlåtande
 * Thai: จองหองพองขน

Derived terms

 * condescendingly

Related terms

 * condescendence
 * condescension