Dictionary Definition
scorn
Noun
1 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, despite]
2 open disrespect for a person or thing [syn:
contempt]
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" [syn: contemn, despise, disdain]
2 reject with contempt; "She spurned his
advances" [syn: reject,
spurn, freeze off,
pooh-pooh,
disdain, turn
down]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /skɔ:n/, /skO:n/
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)n
Verb
Translations
to feel contempt or disdain for something or
somebody
- Czech: opovrhovat, pohrdat
- Dutch: minachten, verachten
- Finnish: halveksia, halveksua
- French: mépriser, dédaigner
- German: verachten
- Greek: κοροϊδεύω (koroïthevó)
- Italiano: disprezzare
- Polish: gardzić, lekceważyć
to scoff or express contempt
- French: mépriser
- German: verspotten
- Polish: szydzić, drwić
to reject
- Finnish: torjua
- German: verschmähen
- Greek: περιφρονώ (perifronó)
- Italiano: disprezzare
- Polish: wzgardzić, odrzucić
- ttbc Chinese: 蔑視, 蔑视
- ttbc Spanish: despreciar
Noun
- Contempt or disdain towards a despicable or unworthy person
- A display of disdain; A slight.
Quotations
- circa 1605: The cry is still 'They come': our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to scorn — William Shakespeare, Macbeth
- 1967: Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined scorn — John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Translations
contempt, disdain
- Chinese: 輕蔑, 轻蔑
- Dutch: minachting , verachting
- French: mépris , dédain
- German: Verachtung
- Greek: περιφρόνηση
- Italian: disprezzo
- Japanese: 軽蔑
- Korean: 경멸
- Polish: pogarda , lekceważenie
- Portuguese: desprezo
- Spanish: desprecio , despreciar, desdén , desdeñar
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
wikt scorn
Scorn may also refer to:
Music
- Scorn (band)
- Scorn of the Women, an album by Weddings Parties Anything
- Scorn Defeat, an album by Sigh
- Forever Scorned, an album by It Dies Today
- "Scorn", a song by Portishead on on Trip-Hop Reconstruction
Film
- The Scorned, 2005 film
- A Woman Scorned
Comic Books
- Scorn written by Kevin Moyers and David C. Hayes, atrwork by Philipp S. Neundorf, published by Septagon Studios
See also
- Sneer
- "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" proverb
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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