scorn

Pronunciation: /skɔːn/

The English word “scorn” has 7 meanings listed here.

verb

To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
To reject, turn down with disdain.
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
To scoff, to express contempt.

noun

Contempt or disdain.
A display of disdain; a slight.
An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

Etymology

Verb from Middle English scornen, schornen, alteration of Old French escharnir, from Vulgar Latin *escarnire, from Proto-West Germanic *skarnijan, possibly from Proto-Germanic *skeraną (“to shear”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”)), or possibly related to *skarną (“dung, filth”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱerd-, *(s)ḱer- (“dung, manure, filth”)). Noun from Old French escarn…

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