Antonyms for scorn
skɔrnscorn

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1. scorn

   Abhor is stronger than despise, implying a shuddering recoil, especially a moral recoil. "How many shun evil as inconvenient who do not abhor it as hateful." Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xxvi, 297. [Murray's "New English Dictionary"] Detest expresses indignation, with something of contempt. Loathe implies disgust, physical or moral. We abhor a traitor, despise a coward, detest a liar. We dislike an uncivil person. We abhor cruelty, hate tyranny. We loathe a reptile or a flatterer. We abhor Milton's heroic Satan, but we can not despise him.

   Antonyms:
   admire, approve, covet, crave, desire, enjoy, esteem, esteem, like, love, relish

   Synonyms:
   abhor, abominate, despise, detest, dislike, hate, loathe, nauseate, shun

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 3 votes

1. scornverb

   Antonyms:
   honor, regard, esteem, venerate, respect, applaud, salute

   Synonyms:
   contemn, despise, slight, disdain, disregard, sibilate, vilipend, spurn, scout

2. scornnoun

   Synonyms:
   mockery, disdain, contempt, sneer, slight, opprobrium

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1. contempt, disdain, scorn, despitenoun

   lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike

   "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary"

   Synonyms:
   patronage, contempt, condescension, disdain, despite, disrespect

2. contempt, scornverb

   open disrespect for a person or thing

   Synonyms:
   contempt, disdain, despite, disrespect

3. contemn, despise, scorn, disdainverb

   look down on with disdain

   "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"

   Synonyms:
   contemn, spurn, reject, pooh-pooh, turn down, freeze off, despise, disdain

4. reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn downverb

   reject with contempt

   "She spurned his advances"

   Synonyms:
   freeze off, eliminate, rule out, lower, resist, despise, winnow out, contemn, decline, lour, spurn, pass up, pooh-pooh, reject, disapprove, disdain, turn away, refuse, turn down

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1. scornnoun

   Synonyms:
   contempt, disdain, derision, contumely, mockery, slight

2. scornverb

   Synonyms:
   despise, reject, contemn, disregard, scout, spurn

How to use scorn in a sentence?

1. Feltham:

   The hooting fowler seldom takes much game. When a man has a project in his mind, digested and fixed by consideration, it is wise to keep it secret till the time that his designs arrive at their despatch and perfection. He is unwise who brags much either of what he will do or what he shall have, for if what he speaks of fall not out accordingly, instead of applause, a mock and scorn will follow him.

2. Mary Ellen Kelly:

   Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

3. Roger Stone:

   Trump wears the scorn of Jeb Bush like a medal.

4. Albert Camus:

   There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

5. Simone Weil:

   Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.”

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