Synonyms of the word condescend


CONDESCENDACT - DEIGN - DESCEND - INTERACT - MOVE - PATRONISE - PATRONIZE - STOOP

condescend

  • v. (intransitive) To come down from one's superior position; to deign (to do something).
  • v. (intransitive) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing (toward someone); to talk down…
  • v. (transitive, rare, possibly nonstandard) To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing toward…
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To consent, agree.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To come down.

act

  • n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
  • n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
  • n. The process of doing something.
  • n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
  • n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
  • n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
  • n. (countable) Any organized activity.
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
  • n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To do something.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
  • v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
  • v. (transitive) To play (a role).
  • v. (transitive) To feign.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

deign

  • v. (intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
  • v. (transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.
  • v. (obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.

descend

  • v. (intransitive) To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way,…
  • v. (intransitive, poetic) To enter mentally; to retire.
  • v. (intransitive, with on or upon) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come…
  • v. (intransitive) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station;…
  • v. (intransitive) To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters…
  • v. (intransitive) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation…
  • v. (intransitive, anatomy) To move toward the south, or to the southward.
  • v. (intransitive, music) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
  • v. (transitive) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of.

interact

  • n. A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.
  • v. To act upon each other.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

patronise

  • v. To make a patron.
  • v. To treat as inferior unfairly, talk down to, treat condescendingly.
  • v. To make oneself a regular customer of a business.

patronize

  • v. (transitive) To make a patron.
  • v. (transitive) To act as a patron; to protect, defend, support.
  • v. (transitive) To assume a tone of unjustified superiority; to talk down to; to treat condescendingly.
  • v. (transitive) To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.

stoop

  • n. (chiefly Northeastern US, chiefly New York, also, Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to…
  • n. The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
  • v. To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
  • v. To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
  • v. Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
  • v. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
  • v. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
  • v. To degrade.
  • n. A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section above) position of the body.
  • n. An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
  • n. (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
  • n. A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.

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