Scorn

What do we mean by scorn?

Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy. noun

The expression of such an attitude in behavior or speech; derision. noun

The state of being despised or dishonored. noun

One spoken of or treated with contempt. noun

To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy. transitive verb

To reject or refuse with derision: synonym: despise. transitive verb

To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath one's dignity. transitive verb

To hold in scorn or contempt; disdain; despise: as, to scorn a hypocrite; to scorn all meanness.

To bring to scorn; treat with scorn or contempt; make a mock of; deride.

To bring into insignificance or into contempt.

Synonyms Contemn, Despise, Scorn, Disdain. Contemn, scorn, and disdain less often apply to persons. In this they differ from the corresponding nouns and from despise, which apply with equal freedom to persons and things. Contemn is the generic term, expressing the fact; it is not so strong as contempt. To despise is to look down upon with strong contempt from a superior position of some sort. To scorn is to have an extreme and passionate contempt for. To disdain is to have a high-minded abhorrence of, or a proud and haughty contempt of. See arrogance.

To feel scorn or contempt.

To point with scorn; scoff; jeer: generally with at.

Mockery; derision; contempt; disdain. noun

The expression of mockery, derision, contempt, or disdain; a scoff; a slight. noun

An object, of derision, contempt, or disdain; a thing to be or that is treated with contempt; a reproach or disgrace. noun

Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object. noun

An act or expression of extreme contempt. noun

An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision. noun

Contempt or disdain.

A display of disdain; a slight.

An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

Words that are spelled similarly to scorn:
scorn, score, corn, acorn, shorn, sworn, sorn, sporn, scarn, scorm, scorp, scern, scor, scon, scort, schorn, scoon, scrn.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word scorn:
earache, derision, heaped, ridicule, mockery, lull, contempt, carnage, sapphire, humiliation, insult, thy, simplicity, anger, hatred, mick, superman, condemned, poets, seemed, rebel, critics, seized, moral, verse, noble, guardian, supposed, radical, fear, wealthy, phil, slaves, abuse.

Words that rhyme with scorn:
borne, horn, corn, porn, forlorn, born, unicorn, thorn, adorn, mourn, warn, airborne, torn, bourne, worn, popcorn, shorn, shoehorn, morn, forewarn, sworn, hawthorn, bighorn, bourn, inborn, dorn, stillborn, horne, reborn, longhorn, bullhorn, firstborn, forsworn, shopworn, morne, buckthorn, orne, sporn, lorne, orn, unborn, osborne, waterborne, frorn, pronghorn, candy corn, korn, thorne, seaborne, hartshorn, dearborn, basset horn, zorn, bjorn, powder horn, indian corn, lowborn, buckhorn, glyndebourne, aborn, corne, french horn, sweet corn, alcorn, wellborn, little bighorn, osborn, einhorn, field corn, winterbourne, green corn, jerusalem thorn, doorn, english horn, waldhorn, bass horn, guinea corn, warne, battle of little bighorn, motor horn, sanborn, battle of the little bighorn, car horn, english hawthorn, false buckthorn, elkhorn, yankee corn, seed corn, southern buckthorn, spindle horn, texas longhorn, automobile horn, edible corn, flint corn, soft corn, squirrel corn, sugar corn, post horn, rocky mountain bighorn, crow corn.

Adjectives that are often used to describe scorn:
public, bitter, withering, much, fine, utter, lofty, open, utmost, indignant, infinite, quiet, cold, ineffable, silent, deep, angry, noble, haughty, greatest, intense, contemptuous, equal, universal, mingled, unutterable, cruel, foul, very, fierce, proud, bitterest, considerable, heaped, deepest, undisguised, impatient, secret, gentle, passionate, intellectual, profound, generous, righteous, concealed, amused, unmitigated, triumphant, affected, mild, supreme, magnificent, savage, honest, aristocratic, habitual, unconcealed, concentrated, mutual, easy, icy, sudden, absolute, supercilious, hostile, terrible, retorted, splendid, apparent, superb, cynical, superior, faint, light, careless, derisive.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective scorn:
poverty, pain.

Consonant match to scorn:
scarn, skarn.

Words that sound like scorn:
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