Englishscorn
noun
he was unable to hide the scorn in his voice:
contempt, derision, contemptuousness, disdain, derisiveness, scornfulness, mockery, sneering, scoffing;
archaic contumely, despite.
▷antonyms admiration, respect.
□ pour scorn on
he pours scorn on the idea that any such thing could really exist:
disparage, denigrate, run down, deprecate, depreciate, downgrade, play down, belittle, trivialize, minimize, make light of, treat lightly, undervalue, underrate, underestimate;
scoff at, sneer at, laugh at, laugh off, mock, ridicule, deride, dismiss, scorn, cast aspersions on, discredit;
North American slur;
informal do down, do a hatchet job on, take to pieces, pull apart, pick holes in, drag through the mud, have a go at, hit out at, knock, slam, pan, bash, bad-mouth, pooh-pooh, look down one's nose at;
British, informal rubbish, slate, slag off;
archaic hold cheap;
rare asperse, derogate, misprize, minify.
verb
1 critics scorned the painting, but it was very popular with those who attended the exhibition | his father was a man who scorned tradition:
deride, be contemptuous about, hold in contempt, treat with contempt, pour/heap scorn on, be scornful about, look down on, look down one's nose at, disdain, curl one's lip at, mock, scoff at, sneer at, sniff at, jeer at, laugh at, laugh out of court;
disparage, slight;
dismiss, cock a snook at, spit in the eye/face of, spit on, thumb one's nose at;
informal turn one's nose up at, blow raspberries at;
North American, informal give the Bronx cheer to;
British, vulgar slang piss on/over;
archaic contemn;
rare misprize, scout.
▷antonyms admire, respect.