Scorn
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /skɔːn/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Scorn is a verb meaning (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
Meaning
(transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To reject, turn down with disdain.
- (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
- (intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.
- (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
- (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
- (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
Example Sentences
She scorned to show weakness.
He scorned her romantic advances.
Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn
We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
Word Forms
- scorns
- scorning
- scorned
Synonyms for scorn
Depending on context, synonyms include contemn, disdain, despect, disrespect, despise, disesteem.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include contempt, disdain, contemn, despise, spurn, reject.
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