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Definitions for Scorn

[1] open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
[2] an object of derision or contempt.
[3] a derisive or contemptuous action or speech.
[4] to treat or regard with contempt or disdain: They scorned the old beggar.
[5] to reject, refuse, or ignore with contempt or disdain: She scorned my help.
[6] to mock; jeer.
[7] laugh to scorn , to ridicule; deride: Her good advice was laughed to scorn.
[8] open contempt or disdain for a person or thing; derision
[9] an object of contempt or derision
[10] archaic an act or expression signifying contempt
[11] to treat with contempt or derision
[12] (tr) to reject with contempt

Words related to Scorn

mockery, sarcasm, ridicule, derision, sneer, disdain, despise, spurn, repudiate, taunt, defy, refute, flout, ignore, disregard, deride, reject, shun, hate, abhor

Words nearby Scorn

scoria, scorification, scorify, scoring, scoring position, in, scorn, scornful, scorpaenid, scorpaenoid, scorper, scorpio

Origin of Scorn

1150–1200; (noun) Middle English scorn, scarn < Old French escarn < Germanic (compare obsolete Dutch schern mockery, trickery); (v.) Middle English skarnen, sc(h)ornen < Old French escharnir, eschernir ≪ Germanic

Other words from Scorn

scorn·er , noun
scorn·ing·ly , adverb
out·scorn , verb (used with object)
self-scorn , noun
un·scorned , adjective

Word origin for Scorn

C12 schornen, from Old French escharnir, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German scerōn to behave rowdily, obsolete Dutch schern mockery

Synonyms for Scorn

derision, disdain, mockery, ridicule, sarcasm, sneer, contemptuousness, contumely, despisal, despite, disparagement, disregard, jeering, scoffing, slight, sport, taunting, teasing, despisement, scornfulness