• (British) IPA: /skɔːn/
• (America) IPA: /skɔɹn/

scorn (scorns, present participle scorning; past and past participle scorned)

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

   • We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.

2. (transitive) To reject#Verb|reject, turn down.

   He scorned her romantic advances.

3. (transitive) To refuse#Verb|refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

   She scorned to show weakness.

4. (intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.

• (to feel contempt) see also Thesaurus:despise
• (to scoff) deride, mock, ridicule, scoff, sneer

• French: mépriser, dédaigner
• German: verachten
• Italian: disprezzare, disdegnare
• Portuguese: desprezar, desdenhar, menosprezar
• Russian: презира́ть
• Spanish: despreciar, desdeñar, menospreciar

• German: verschmähen
• Italian: disprezzare
• Russian: отвергать
• Spanish: rechazar

• French: mépriser
• German: verspotten
• Russian: насмехаться
• Spanish: escarnecer

scorn

1. (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
2. (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.

   • Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.

3. (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Psalms 44:13 ↗:

     Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

• See also Thesaurus:contempt

• French: mépris, dédain
• German: Verachtung
• Italian: disprezzo
• Portuguese: desprezo, escárnio, desdém
• Russian: презре́ние
• Spanish: desprecio, desdén, escarnio, ludibrio (formal)