Scorn

Definition: Scorn

Scorn

Noun

1. Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.

2. Open disrespect for a person or thing.

Verb

1. Look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately".

2. Reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scorn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), noun. [Old English scorn, scarn, scharn, Old French escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; compare to Old High German skern mockery, skern[=o]n to mock; but compare to also Old French escorner to mock.]. (references)

Synonyms: Scorn

Contempt

Verb: despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by; (neglect).

Point the finger of scorn, hold up to scorn, laugh to scorn; scout, hoot, flout, hiss, scoff at.

Noun: contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt; despisal, despiciency; despisement; vilipendency, contumely; slight, sneer, spurn, by-word; despect.

Defiance

Verb: defy, dare, beard; brave; (courage); bid defiance to; set at defiance, set at naught; hurl defiance at; dance the war dance, beat the war drums; snap the fingers at, laugh to scorn; disobey.

Disrespect

Have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque; laugh to scorn; (contempt); smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob.

Revenge

Phrase: manet ciratrix, manet alid mente repostum; dies irae dies illa; " in high vengeance there is noble scorn "; inhumanum verbum est ultio; malevolus animus abditos dentes habet; " now infidel I have thee on the hip ".

Ridicule

Scorn, contempt.

Crosswords: Scorn

Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt and any thing that may not misbecome the mighty sender, doth he prize you at. Thus says my king (Henry V; writing credit: Kenneth Branagh; William Shakespeare)

Yeah, but we regard 'em with scorn. (The Folk Song Army; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

The Laugh of Scorn (1916)

Scorn (2000)

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Books

• Child of scorn : a mind play in three parts and numerous voices (reference)

• Scorn for the World: Bernard of Cluny's De Contemptu Mundi: The Latin Text With English Translation and an Introduction (Medieval Texts and Studies, (reference)

• Scorn of Women (The Collected Works of Jack London - 56 Volumes) (reference)

• Scorn With Extra Bile (reference)

• The Scorn of Women and Other Klondyke Tales [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Bitterness Spite Rage & Scorn (reference)

• Scorn Defeat (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Gertie]. One morning on Fifth Avenue Gertie saw Mr. Cyrus Pew the banker with his back in scorn .. Credit: Library of Congress.

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In each averted face I marked but scorn and loathing, till mine eyes Fell upon one that stirred not in his place, Tranced in a dumb surprise

These emotions, in fact, and its bitterest scorn besides, seemed to be the sole portion that she retained in the universal heart

Mr Dedalus uttered a guffaw of coarse scorn.

Think you, my lord, this little prating York Was not incensed by his subtle mother To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously

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Women

Libya

For example, many educated young couples prefer to set up their own households, rather than move in with their parents, and view polygyny with scorn. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "scorn": laugh to scorn ♦ laughed to scorn ♦ pouring scorn ♦ scorn a piece of advice ♦ scorn to do smth. ♦ To laugh to scorn ♦ To think scorn. Additional references.

Albanian

përbuzje (contempt, despite, disdain, opprobrium, self-assumption), përçmim (depreciation, disdain, putdown), neverit (abhor, cloy, contempt, detest, disdain, disgust, repulse, sicken), neveris (abhor, cloy, contempt, detest, disdain, disgust, sicken), neveri (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, contempt, disdain, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, gorge, horror, loathing, nausea, odiousness, odium, recoil, repugnance, repulsion, revolt), gjë e përçmuar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏موضع إحتقار, ‏سخرية (burlesque, derision, fling, gibe, humor, humour, irony, jeer, lampoon, laughter, mockery, persiflage, quip, ridicule, rub, sarcasm, scoff, shy, snap, sneer, spoof, taunt, tee-hee, tehee, twit, wit), ‏إحتقار (abasement, contempt, hiss), ‏إحتقر (despise, misprise, misprize, pooh pooh, talk down, trifle with), ‏إزدرى (despise, disdain, disesteem, disfavor, disfavour, look down on, pooh pooh, slight, snub), ‏إزدراء (contempt, contumely, disdain, disfavor, disfavour, disrespect, pride), ‏أهمل (be negligent, default, desert, discount, disregard, forsake, go by the board, lapse, lay aside, lay by, leave out, neglect, omit, overlook, pass, pass over smth., set apart, skive, slight, throwaway), ‏رفض (decline, defy, denial, denied, deny, disallow, disapproval, disapprove, dismiss, ignore, negate, negation, negative, nix, objection, odium, overrule, pass up, rebuff, refusal, refuse, reject, rejection, renouncement, repel, reprobate, repudiate, repudiation, repulse, set aside, throw out, throw over, toss, turn down). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отказвам се с презрение, обект на презрение, обект на присмех, насмешка (laugh, mock, mockery, quiz), презрение (contempt, despite, disdain, execration), презирам (bar, contemn, despise, disdain, execrate, misprise, misprize, sneer), присмех (derision, fling, hoot, jeer, laugh, mockery, ridicule, rub, scoff, taunt). (various references)

Chinese 

轻�"� (scorned), 輕視 (contempt, contemptuous, despise, scornful), 鄙薄 (despise). (various references)

Czech

pohrdání (contempt, disdain, disregard), opovrhovat (defy, despise, spurn), opovržení (abhorrence, abomination, contempt, despite, disdain), despekt. (various references)

Farsi 

حقارت (Demission, Humility), تمسخر (Derision, Irony, Scoff, Sneer), تحقیر (Contempt, Diminution, Disdain, Humility, Letdown, Slight), خوارشمردن (Despise, Disdain), خردانگاری , خردانگاشتن , اهانت کردن , استهزاء کردن (Deride, Guy, Jest, Jig), بی اعتناءی (Defiance, Inattention, Slight). (various references)

Finnish

ylenkatse (contempt), halveksia (despise, disdain, look down upon). (various references)

French

risée, rejeter, négliger, moquerie (scoff), mépriser, mépris, dédain (scornfulness), dédaigner. (various references)

German

Verachtung (abhorrence, contempt, despite, disdain, scornfulness), verachten (abhor, defy, despise, disdain, dispise, hold in contempt, to despise, to disdain, to dispise, to scorn), Hohn (contumely, derision, mockery, scoff, taunt). (various references)

Greek 

περιφρόνηση (contempt, contumely, defiance), περιφρονώ (contemn, deride, despise, disdain, look down on, snub). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקלס (deride, mock), לעו�' (bake a cake, derision, mockery), לע�' (derision, mockery, ridicule), לבוז (contemn, despise, disdain, flout, mock at), לבזות (abase, blackguard, degrade, despise), לצון (fun, jesting, mockery, prank, ridicule), ל� אוץ (abuse, blaspheme, deride, despise, spurn), קלס�" (derision, mockery), קלס (derision, mockery), זלזול (contempt, derision, disparagement, disregard, disrespect, flippancy, irreverence, negligence), �"ופי (blemish, fault, flaw, impurity, insult, slur, smirch, taint), �'�"וף (abuse, blasphemy, curse, insult, invective, obloquy, profanity, revilement, swearword, vilification, vituperation). (various references)

Hungarian

megvetés (contempt, despite, disdain, flout, loathing, misprision, spurn). (various references)

Indonesian

mencibiri (look down at), mencaci (berate, curse out, jeer at, swear at), kedaifan (bumbleness, comtempt, weakness), cerca (derision, disdain), angka (digit, number, numeral, point, rate, score). (various references)

Italian

scherno (derision, jeer, mockery, scoff, sneer, taunt), disprezzare (contemn, despise, disdain, dispise, flout, look down on). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

軽侮 (contempt), 侮�"� (contempt, disdain, slight). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶべつ (contempt, disdain, slight), あなどり (contempt), あざけり (ridicule), けいべつ (disdain), けいぶ (contempt, neck, police inspector), ちょうしょう (funeral bell, sign, sneer, token), ちょうろう (eldest, mockery, ridicule, senior). (various references)

Korean 

경멸하십시�". (various references)

Manx

gannidys (banter, buffoonery, derision, mockery), floutyraght (mock, rebut, reproach, slander, stigmatize), flout (affront, aspersion, gibe, invective, rebuff, rebuttal, reproach, slander, snub, stigma, taunt, vituperation), fannidys (derision, mockery, ridicule), faghid (contempt, derision, distain, insult, mockery, ridicule, sneer). (various references)

Pig Latin

ornscay.(various references)

Portuguese

objeto de escárnio, menosprezo (contempt, underestimate), menosprezar (contemn, crab, despise, lessen, look down upon, make little of, misprise, misprize, mock, underestimate, underrate, undervalue), desprezo (contempt, disdain, disregard, pish), desprezar (contemn, despise, disdain, disesteem, flout, forget, laugh off, look down, look down on, misprise, misprize, sneeze, undervalue), desdenhar (contemn, disdain, disregard, look down on, misprise, misprize), desdém (contempt, disdain, disregard), abster-se de (abstain, forbear, forgo, refrain, refrain from). (various references)

Romanian

zeflemisi (banter, chaff, deride, rail, ridicule, score, slight, taunt), zeflemea (banter, chaff, chaffing, gibe, jeer, jesting, quip, raillery, taunt), oprobriu (contempt, opprobrium), nesocoti (disregard, ignore, leave, overrule, pass by, pass over, sneeze, trample on, undervalue), indignare (Dander, displeasure, indignation, resentment, simmer), dispreţui (brave, contemn, despise, disdain, dispraise, hold cheap, hold smb. in contempt, look down on, pooh pooh, set at naught, slight, spurn, trample, turn up one's nose at, undervalue), dispreţ (contempt, despite, disdain, disregard, flout, haughtiness, odium, spurn), batjocurã (farce, gibe, insult, jeer, jesting, mock, mockery, quiz, ridicule, taunt), batjocori (abuse, bemock, deride, disdain, flout, rape, satirize, scoff, shame, taunt, violate), încãlca (break, defy, impinge, infringe, infringe on, infringe upon, invade, overrun, poach, usurp, violate). (various references)

Russian 

насмешка (derision, dig, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, jest, jibe, piss-take, quiz, scoff, taunt, twit), пренебрежение (depreciation, disdain, disparagement, disregard, flout, neglect), презрение (contempt, disdain), презирать пренебрежение. (various references)

Scottish

dìmeas (contempt, depreciation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prezreti, prezirati (contemn, despise, detest, disdain, look down, misprise, misprize, spit upon), prezir (contempt, disdain, spurn), nipodaštavati (run down, slur, underrate), nipodaštavanje (slight, slur). (various references)

Spanish

desdén (disdain, superciliousness, superiority). (various references)

Swedish

hån (contumely, derision, gibe, jeer, mockery, outrage, ridicule, sneer, taunt), förakta (contemn, despise, disdain, disregard), förakt (contempt, disdain, disregard). (various references)

Turkish

kuçük görmek, küçümsenen şey, küçümsemek (belittle, contemn, defy, depreciate, despise, disdain, flout, look down on, make light of, minimize, pooh pooh, sneer, underestimate, underrate, undervalue), küçümseme (contempt, contemptibility, contemptuousness, disdain, scoff, setdown, underestimation), hor görmek (contemn, despise, disesteem, disparage, look down on, look down one's nose at, misprize, underestimate), hor görme (contempt, despising, insult, look down on, underestimating, underrating), aşağılamak (abase, belittle, give smb. the wall, humiliate, insult, pooh pooh, take down, talk down). (various references)

Ukrainian

образливе зауваження, знущатися (bemock, flout, guy, jeer), зневажати (cold shoulder, невимушенІсть [f], desecrate, despise, disdain, disregard, ignore, misprise, misprize, neglect, overlook, override, scout, spit, violate), презирство (contempt). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự khinh rẻ đối tượng bị khinh bỉ, sự khinh miệt (contemptuousness, despite), sự khinh bỉ (contemptuousness). (various references)

Welsh

gwawd (ridicule, scoff), diystyrwch (contempt, disdain), dirmygu (despise), dirmyg (contempt). (various references)

aspernabantur, contemnam, contemnant, contemnas, contemnat, contemnatis, contemnendae, contemnendum, contemnens, contemnent, contemnentes, contemnenti, contemnere, contemnet, contemni, contemnis, contemnit, contemnitis, contemnunt, contempserint, contempseris, contempseritis, contempserunt, contempsi, contempsisset, contempsisti, contempsistis, contempsit, contempta, contemptio, contempto, contemptorum, contemptos, contemptu, contemptui, contemptum, contemptus, despicere, ex-, fastidium, indignabantur, indignabitur, indignamini, indignandum, indignans, indignantes, indignari, indignata, indignati, indignatus, indignatusque, indigneris, indignetur, reiciendum, reiecta, repudiata, repudiatam, spernas, spernat, spernebant, spernemus, spernere, sperneris, spernit, spernunt, spretiones, spreverat, spreverit, spreveritis, spreverunt, sprevissent, sprevisti, sprevistis, sprevit. (various references)

tarôidîti. (various references)

forhicgan. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "scorn": scorned, scorner, scorners, scornful, scornfully, scornfulness, scornfulnesses, scorning, scorns. (additional references)

Words ending with "scorn": outscorn. (additional references)

Words containing "scorn": outscorned, outscorning, outscorns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Scorn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Csorna, sacor, sbodn, scanro, scbr, sceran, scerne, schon, Schorm, Schorn, scon, sconk, scoon, scor, scord, scorf, scori, scorp, scors, scort, Scory, Scotni, scoun, scourn, Scro, scrone, scurn, secorn, Sicord, skern, skor, socor, sornt, sporn. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: corns.

-1 letter: cons, corn, cors, orcs, rocs, sorn.

-2 letters: con, cor, cos, nor, nos, ons, orc, ors, roc, son.

-3 letters: no, on, or, os, so.

+1 letter: acorns, broncs, censor, cornus, crones, croons, crowns, narcos, orcins, racons, recons, scorns.

+2 letters: anchors, archons, bicrons, broncos, candors, cantors, carbons, cartons, censors, cistron, citrons, cloners, coarsen, coiners, concurs, condors, confers, congers, conkers, conners, consort, contras, corbans, cordons, corneas, cornels, corners, cornets, coronas, cortins, cratons, crayons, crepons, crimson, cronies, crotons, encores, garcons, incisor, incross, macrons, microns, narcose, necrose, orceins, racoons, ranchos, rancors, reckons, recoins, scoring, scorned, scorner, synchro, uncorks, uncross, zircons.