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Meaning of scorn

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

scorn

Pronunciation:/skɔːn//skɔɹn/

noun

Definitions

  1. Contempt or disdain.

  2. A display of disdain; a slight.

  3. An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

verb

Definitions

  1. To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

  2. To reject, turn down.

    Example: He scorned her romantic advances.

  3. To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

    Example: She scorned to show weakness.

  4. To scoff, to express contempt.