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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
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antipathy
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????????? (antipátheia), noun of state from ????????? (antipath?s, “opposed in feeling”), from ???? (antí, “against”) + root of ????? (páthos, “feeling”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /æn?t?p??i/
- Hyphenation: an?tip?athy
Noun
antipathy (countable and uncountable, plural antipathies)
- A feeling of dislike (normally towards someone, less often towards something); repugnance or distaste.
- 4 November 2016, Spencer Ackerman writing in The Guardian, 'The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say
- Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.
- June 1917, The National Geographic Magazine Volume 31, No. 6, Our State Flowers/The Sagebrush
- The sagebrush belongs to the composite family, and its immediate cousins are widely distributed. They are known as the artemisias, and there are a host of them, many with important uses in the economy of civilization. Artemisia absinthium is popularly known as wormwood; from it comes the bitter, aromatic liquor known as eau or crême d'absinthe. Many of its cousins grow in Asia and Europe, including the mugwort, used by the Germans as a seasoning in cookery; southernwood, used by the British to drive away moths from linen and woolens and to force newly swarmed bees, which have a peculiar antipathy for it, into the hive
- 4 November 2016, Spencer Ackerman writing in The Guardian, 'The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say
- Natural contrariety or incompatibility
Usage notes
- Prepositions: "antipathy" is followed by "to", "against", or "between"; also sometimes by "for".
Synonyms
- (dislike): : hatred, aversion, dislike, disgust, distaste, enmity, ill will, repugnance, contrariety, opposition
Antonyms
- sympathy
Related terms
- antipathetic
- antipathetical
- antipathize
Translations
Further reading
- antipathy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- antipathy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- antipathy at OneLook Dictionary Search
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