Spurn Synonyms and Antonyms

spûrn
To be unwilling to accept, consider, or receive
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decline
  2. dismiss
  3. refuse
  4. reject
  5. turn down
  6. nix
To slight (someone) deliberately
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. refuse
  2. reject
  3. scorn
  4. shun
  5. disdain
  6. despise
  7. rebuff
  8. snub
  9. cut
  10. contemn
  11. decline
  12. disregard
  13. eschew
  14. flout
  15. ignore
  16. kick
  17. look-down-on
  18. freeze off
  19. hold in contempt
  20. repudiate
  21. scoff
  22. coldshoulder
  23. scout
  24. scrape
  25. pooh-pooh
  26. slight
  27. tread
  28. turn down
Antonyms:
  1. welcome
  2. want
  3. embrace
To reject with disdain or contempt.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. refuse
A deliberate slight
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cut
  2. rebuff
  3. snub
  4. cold shoulder
  5. go-by

Words Related to Spurn

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.

Related:

  1. evade
  2. accept
  3. held-out
  4. cast-aside

Spurn Sentence Examples

  • Some of these even spurn from them the idea of any one having full Assurance, branding the idea as Presumption.

  • Strange then, that Londoners prefer to spurn what is a superior machine, seduced instead by the retro charms of the Vespa.

  • To this More answered, " Alas, Meg, it pitieth me to remember unto what misery, poor soul, she will .shortly come; these dances of hers will prove such dances that she will spurn our heads off like footballs; but it will not be long ere her head will dance the like dance."

  • Soon after this the town, which lay immediately inside Spurn Point, must have been destroyed.

  • The seaward horn of this bay, however, is formed by a narrow protruding bank of sand and stones, thrown up by a southward current along the Yorkshire coast, and known as Spurn Head.

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