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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024scorn /skɔrn/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- open contempt;
disdain:She felt only scorn for the man who tried to get her fired.
v. [~ + object] - to treat or regard with contempt or disdain:She scorned my help.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024scorn (skôrn),USA pronunciation n. - open or unqualified contempt;
disdain:His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt. - an object of derision or contempt.
- a derisive or contemptuous action or speech.
- Idioms laugh to scorn, to ridicule;
deride:Her good advice was laughed to scorn.
v.t. - to treat or regard with contempt or disdain:They scorned the old beggar.
- to reject, refuse, or ignore with contempt or disdain:She scorned my help.
v.i. - to mock;
jeer.
- Old French escharnir, eschernir Gmc
- Gmc (compare obsolete Dutch schern mockery, trickery); (verb, verbal) Middle English skarnen, sc(h)ornen
- Old French escarn
- (noun, nominal) Middle English scorn, scarn 1150–1200
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged contumely. See contempt.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged disdain, contemn, despise, detest.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged praise.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: scorn /skɔːn/ n - open contempt or disdain for a person or thing; derision
- an object of contempt or derision
vb - to treat with contempt or derision
- (transitive) to reject with contempt
Etymology: 12th Century schornen, from Old French escharnir, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German scerōn to behave rowdily, obsolete Dutch schern mockeryˈscorner n ˈscornful adj ˈscornfully adv |