English adjective: disrespectful | |||
1. | disrespectful exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous | ||
Samples | Remarks disrespectful of the law. Disrespectful in the presence of his parents. Disrespectful toward his teacher. | ||
Similar | annihilating, contemptuous, contumelious, derisive, devastating, disdainful, flip, gibelike, impious, impudent, insolent, insulting, jeering, mocking, scornful, snotty-nosed, taunting, undeferential, undutiful, withering | ||
See also | discourteous, immodest, irreverent, offensive, sarcastic | ||
Antonyms | respectful | ||
2. | disrespectful neither feeling nor showing respect | ||
Synonyms | aweless, awless | ||
Similar | irreverent | ||
Antonyms | reverent | ||