'Scorn' definitions:
Definition of 'scorn'
(from WordNet)
noun
Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary" [syn: contempt, disdain, scorn, despite]
noun
Open disrespect for a person or thing [syn: contempt, scorn]
verb
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" [syn: contemn, despise, scorn, disdain]
verb
Definition of 'Scorn'
From: GCIDE
- Scorn \Scorn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scorned (sk[^o]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scoring.] [OE. scornen, scarnen, schornen, OF. escarnir, escharnir. See Scorn, n.]
- 1. To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. [1913 Webster]
- I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful. --C. J. Smith. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride. [1913 Webster]
- His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To contemn; despise; disdain. See Contemn. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scorn'
From: GCIDE
- Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), n. [OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF. escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern mockery, skern[=o]n to mock; but cf. also OF. escorner to mock.]
- 1. Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. [1913 Webster]
- Scorn at first makes after love the more. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- And wandered backward as in scorn, To wait an aeon to be born. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An act or expression of extreme contempt. [1913 Webster]
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision. [1913 Webster]
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. --Ps. xliv. 13. [1913 Webster]
- To think scorn, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt; to disdain. "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." --Esther iii. 6.
- To laugh to scorn, to deride; to make a mock of; to ridicule as contemptible. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Contempt; disdain; derision; contumely; despite; slight; dishonor; mockery. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scorn'
From: GCIDE
- Scorn \Scorn\ (sk[^o]rn), v. i. To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully. [1913 Webster]
- He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, And, now I am remembered, scorned at me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scorn'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abhor,
- airs,
- arrogance,
- be above,
- be contemptuous of,
- care nothing for,
- clannishness,
- cliquishness,
- contemn,
- contempt,
- contemptuousness,
- contumely,
- deprecation,
- deride,
- derision,
- despisal,
- despise,
- despite,
- disavow,
- disdain,
- disdainfulness,
- dismissal,
- disown,
- disparage,
- disparagement,
- disprize,
- disregard,
- dump on,
- exclusiveness,
- feel contempt for,
- feel superior to,
- flout,
- flouting,
- fuss,
- gibing,
- hauteur,
- hold beneath one,
- hold cheap,
- hold in contempt,
- hold in derision,
- ignore,
- insult,
- jeer at,
- jeering,
- laugh at,
- laugh to scorn,
- look,
- look down upon,
- make fun of,
- misprize,
- mockery,
- pick and choose,
- poke fun at,
- pooh-pooh,
- put down,
- rank low,
- rebuff,
- reject,
- rejection,
- ridicule,
- scoff at,
- scoffing,
- scornfulness,
- scout,
- set at defiance,
- set at naught,
- shun,
- slight,
- slight over,
- sneer at,
- sneering,
- sneeze at,
- sniff at,
- sniffiness,
- snobbishness,
- snootiness,
- snort at,
- snottiness,
- snub,
- sovereign contempt,
- spurn,
- superciliousness,
- taunt,
- taunting,
- think nothing of,
- toploftiness,
- treat with contempt