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Definition: Spurned |
SpurnedAdjective1. Rebuffed (by a lover) without warning; "jilted at the altar". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spurned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Synonyms: SpurnedSynonyms: jilted (adj), rejected (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spurned |
| English words defined with "spurned": disdain ♦ echo ♦ freeze off ♦ pooh-pooh ♦ reject ♦ scorn, spurn ♦ turn down. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Spurned" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 51.09% of the time. "Spurned" is used about 92 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 51.09% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 33.7% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.13% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (common) | 1.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 92 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spurned | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spurned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | æ‘'弃 (Abandon, Abandoned, Abandoning, spurn, Spurning). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | verschämte (bashfully), abgelehnt (declined, deprecated, disliked, disowned). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | jiooldit (abnegated, cast, refused, rejected). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | urnedspay försmådd (love-lorn). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Spurned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spunee, spurnen, spurued. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spurned" (pronounced sper"nd) |
| 3 | -er" n d | adjourned, burned, churned, concerned, discerned, earned, learned, returned, turned, unburned, unconcerned, unearned, unturned, yearned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: drupes, dupers, nursed, perdus, prudes, pruned, prunes, pursed, sendup, sunder, upends, upsend. | |
-2 letters: drupe, druse, dunes, duper, dupes, dures, durns, nerds, nuder, nudes, nurds, nurse, pends, perdu, prude, prune, pseud, purse, rends, runes, spend, sprue, spued, spurn, super, under, upend. | |
-3 letters: dens, dues, dune, duns, dupe, dups, dure, durn, ends, erns, nerd, nude. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: plunders, pounders, undrapes, uptrends. | |
+2 letters: ponderous, prudences, splendour, superfund, supermind, suspender, underlaps, underlips, underpass, underpays, underpins, underspin, unpressed, unsphered, unsprayed, uplanders. | |
+3 letters: expounders, gunpowders, persuading, plunderers, plunderous, punditries, splendours, splendrous, superfunds, superminds, supervened, surprinted, suspenders, underpants, underparts, underplays, underplots, underspins, uninspired, unscripted, unstrapped, upwardness. | |
+4 letters: compounders, epidendrums, imprudences, outsprinted, paperbounds, pastureland, ponderously, profoundest, propounders, prudishness, splendorous, superabound, superadding, superceding, superharden, superinduce, superintend, supermodern, superseding, suspendered, tenpounders, unaspirated, underexpose, underpasses, underprices, undersupply, unexpressed, unimpressed, unpersuaded, unpressured, unprocessed, unprofessed, unrepressed, unseparated, unstoppered, unsupported, unsurpassed, unsurprised. | |
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