scorn

Plural: scorns

Noun

lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
open disrespect for a person or thing
Contempt or disdain.
A display of disdain; a slight.
An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

Verb

Verb Forms: scorned, scorning, scorns

To feel or express contempt or disdain for.
look down on with disdain
- "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"
reject with contempt
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
To reject, turn down.
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
To scoff, to express contempt.

Examples

He scorned her romantic advances.
He would SCORN any player who used obscure, unverified words.
She scorned to show weakness.

Origin / 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 (cognate with Portuguese escárnio, Spanish escarnio and Italian scherno). Cognate with Middle High German schern (“joke, mockery, scorn”), Old English sċierniċġe (“female entertainer, juggler, actress”).

Synonyms

contemn, contempt, despise, despite, disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, spurn, turn down, deride, mock, ridicule, scoff, sneer

Scrabble Score: 7

scorn: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
scorn: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scorn: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

scorn: valid Words With Friends Word