condescender

C3O1N1D2E1S1C3E1N1D2E1R1

noun

One who condescends.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nouncondescender (plural condescenders)

plural condescenders

  1. One who condescends.
    1 more example

    It was almost a surprise to remember that he could be proud—that he was proud—of all that he had seen and done abroad, and to feel himself distinguished by the habituated worldliness that since his homecoming had seemed to mark him only as a deserter, a tiresome condescender, and an apostate — not just of his religion, but of his family, of his country, and even, in some impenetrable way, of himself.

    2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 34

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

condescender. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/condescender

MLA

“condescender.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/condescender. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “condescender,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/condescender.

Source: condescender on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.