Condescend synonyms
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To release (a bow, for example) from flexure or tension.
assume a patronizing air
lower one's tone
graciously stoop
To proceed or progress downward, as in rank, pitch, or scale:
waive a privilege
To resemble another in appearance:
sing small
patronize (related)
To be kind or helpful to, but in a haughty or snobbish way, as if dealing with an inferior
Or (intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
rise above (antonym)
stoop, humble oneself
To stoop is to bend over, or to do something that is demeaning or below your status.
To graciously give, to condescendingly grant a right, benefit, outcome, etc.; to deign to acknowledge.
To treat in a condescending or supercilious manner.
speak (or talk) down to
over (related)
Beyond or until a specified time:
rise (related)
Rise is defined as to wake up, stand up, go to a higher place or increase in amount.
respect (related)
To feel or show deferential regard for; esteem or admire:
lower oneself
debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
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.
displease (related)
upbraid (related)
entreat (related)
humble oneself
demean oneself
degrade oneself
submit with good grace
assume a superior air
accommodate oneself to (one regarded as inferior)
To grant or concede; bestow
come down off one's high horse
come down a peg
The definition of concede means to acknowledge or admit.
attitude (related)
To assume or to place in a particular position or orientation; to pose.
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
Find another word for condescend. In this page you can discover 37 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for condescend, like: unbend, assume a patronizing air, talk down to, lower one's tone, graciously stoop, descend, waive a privilege, favor, sing small, patronize and oblige.