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Condescend synonyms and antonyms

kŏn'dĭ-sĕnd'

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patronize (related)
To be kind or helpful to, but in a haughty or snobbish way, as if dealing with an inferior
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assume a patronizing air
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vouchsafe
To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge.
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over (related)
Beyond or until a specified time:
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rise (related)
Rise is defined as to wake up, stand up, go to a higher place or increase in amount.
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respect (related)
To feel or show deferential regard for; esteem or admire:
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displease (related)
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descend
To proceed or progress downward, as in rank, pitch, or scale:
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waive a privilege
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sing small
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oblige
To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
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submit
Or (intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
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rise above (antonym)
stoop, humble oneself
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high-hat
To treat in a condescending or supercilious manner.
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speak (or talk) down to
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stoop
To do something that one regards as beneath one's social rank or dignity; lower oneself.
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patronise
To make a patron
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lower oneself
debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
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deign
Deign is defined as to lower one's self to do or say something, and to do so with a high sense of one's own superiority.
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upbraid (related)
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entreat (related)
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humble oneself
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graciously stoop
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favor
To resemble another in appearance:
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lower one's tone
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demean oneself
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degrade oneself
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submit with good grace
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assume a superior air
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accord
To grant or concede; bestow
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come down off one's high horse
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come down a peg
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concede
The definition of concede means to acknowledge or admit.
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attitude (related)
To assume or to place in a particular position or orientation; to pose.
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unbend
To release (a bow, for example) from flexure or tension.
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accommodate oneself to (one regarded as inferior)
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Synonym Study

  • he would scarcely deign to appear in public
  • Deign connotes unwilling or arrogant condescension the duchess deigned to shake my hand and, hence, is most frequently used in negative constructions or with such qualifications as hardly, scarcely, barely she didn't deign to reply
  • Stoop implies a descending in dignity, as by committing some shameful or immoral act to stoop to cheating
  • Condescend implies a voluntary descent by one high in rank, power, etc. to act graciously or affably toward one regarded as his inferior the general condescended to talk with the private
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Condescend Sentence Examples

  • I don't want to condescend; but, what I mean is that it makes great little cars.

  • They will not condescend or take any notice of their indiscretion.

  • Opposition soon arose, and as Alexander could not understand a freedom which differed from himself, and would not condescend to the use of corruption, by which the ancient Polish diets had been managed, he was driven to use force.

  • He would not even condescend to make a baby laugh if nobody else laughed, or even listened.

  • The combative energy, the sense of superiority, the spirit of satire, characteristic of him as a Roman, unite with his loyalty to Epicurus to render him not only polemical but intolerant and contemptuous in his tone toward the great antagonists of his system, the Stoics, whom, while constantly referring to them, he does not condescend even to name.

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