different between scorn vs scorny
scorn
English
Etymology
Verb from Middle English scornen, schornen, alteration of Old French escharnir, from Vulgar Latin *escarnire, from Proto-Germanic *skarnjan, which could be from *skeran? (“to shear”), or possibly related to *skarn? (“dung, filth”). Noun from Old French escarn (cognate with Portuguese escárnio, Spanish escarnio and Italian scherno).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sk??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /sk??n/
- Rhymes: -??(r)n
Verb
scorn (third-person singular simple present scorns, present participle scorning, simple past and past participle scorned)
- (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
- 1871, C. J. Smith, Synonyms Discriminated
- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
- 1871, C. J. Smith, Synonyms Discriminated
- (transitive) To reject, turn down.
- (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
- (intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb which takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- (to feel contempt): see also Thesaurus:despise
- (to scoff): deride, mock, ridicule, scoff, sneer
Translations
Noun
scorn (countable and uncountable, plural scorns)
- (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
- (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
- 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
- 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
- (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Usage notes
- Scorn is often used in the phrases pour scorn on and heap scorn on.
Quotations
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:contempt
Derived terms
- scornful
Translations
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN
Anagrams
- Crons, corns
scorn From the web:
- what scorned mean
- what scorned woman do
- sterner means
- what scorner mean in the bible
- what scorned a woman
- what's scorn mean in spanish
- scorn meaning in english
- what scorner meaning in spanish
scorny
English
Etymology
From scorn +? -y.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)ni
Adjective
scorny (comparative more scorny, superlative most scorny)
- (obsolete) Expressing scorn; scornful, contemptuous.
- 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 12:
- [H]er teeth were small, bespeaking a selfish disposition: indeed the whole of her features were what her husband would sometimes call scorney, particularly in their latter days during their little fracas […] .
- 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 12:
Anagrams
- Conrys, Synroc, croyns
scorny From the web:
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- scorn vs scorny
- deniest vs dewiest
- densest vs deniest
- denies vs deniest
- deftest vs deffest
- deftest vs detest
- daftest vs deftest
- deafest vs deffest
- deffest vs duffest
- antistate vs antistat
- antistat vs antistar
- antistat vs antistab
- compound vs antistat
- discharge vs esd
- electrostatic vs esd
- unfuelled vs unquelled
- inveighed vs inveigher
- inveighed vs invected
- inveigher vs inveigler
- inveigler vs inveigles