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Definitions for Scorned
[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 Scorned
scorndespise, spurn, disdain, repudiate, taunt, defy, ridicule, refute, flout, ignore, disregard, deride, reject, shun, hate, abhor, mock, refuse, gibe, renounce
Words nearby Scorned
scornscoria, scorification, scorify, scoring, scoring position, in, scorn, scornful, scorpaenid, scorpaenoid, scorper, scorpio
Origin of Scorned
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 Scorned
scorn·er , noun
scorn·ing·ly , adverb
out·scorn , verb (used with object)
self-scorn , noun
un·scorned , adjective
Word origin for Scorned
C12 schornen, from Old French escharnir, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German scerōn to behave rowdily, obsolete Dutch schern mockery
Synonyms for Scorned
abhor, defy, deride, despise, disdain, disregard, flout, hate, ignore, mock, refute, reject, repudiate, ridicule, shun, spurn, taunt, avoid, confute, contemn, gibe, refuse, renounce, slight, sneer, trash, be above, consider beneath one, make fun of, put down, run down, scoff at, turn back on, turn nose up at