Scorn Synonyms and Antonyms

skôrn
To treat with scorn
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. despise
  2. disdain
  3. contemn
  4. reject
  5. spurn
  6. scout
  7. hold in contempt
  8. condemn
  9. contempt
  10. deride
  11. derision
  12. disregard
  13. flout
  14. jeer
  15. mock
  16. ostracize
  17. freeze off
  18. ridicule
  19. scoff
  20. shun
  21. pooh-pooh
  22. sneer
  23. snub
  24. turn down
Antonyms:
  1. admire
  2. approve
  3. love
  4. like
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To reject or refuse with derision:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. despise
To refuse as a matter of principle
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ignore
  2. flout
  3. defy
  4. spurn
  5. repudiate
  6. reject
  7. turn the back upon
  8. avoid
  9. shun
  10. renounce
Antonyms:
  1. acknowledge
  2. accept
  3. welcome. See syn. study at despise.despise
  4. welcome

Words Related to Scorn

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Scorn Sentence Examples

  • This scorn was not offensive to his master.

  • His tactics would never earn anything but scorn from Kris, but they worked.

  • The good knight is bound to endless fantastic courtesies towards men and still more towards women of a certain rank; he may treat all below that rank with any decree of scorn and cruelty.

  • The word is of Armenian formation and signifies a son of Paulik or of little Paul; the termination -ik must here have originally expressed scorn and contempt.

  • No writer shows a juster scorn of all mere rhetoric and exaggeration.

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