Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to scorn
Participle: scorned
Gerund: scorning
Indicative
Present
| I | scorn |
| you | scorn |
| he;she;it | scorns |
| we | scorn |
| you | scorn |
| they | scorn |
Perfect
| I | have scorned |
| you | have scorned |
| he;she;it | has scorned |
| we | have scorned |
| you | have scorned |
| they | have scorned |
Past
| I | scorned |
| you | scorned |
| he;she;it | scorned |
| we | scorned |
| you | scorned |
| they | scorned |
Pluperfect
| I | had scorned |
| you | had scorned |
| he;she;it | had scorned |
| we | had scorned |
| you | had scorned |
| they | had scorned |
Future
| I | will scorn |
| you | will scorn |
| he;she;it | will scorn |
| we | will scorn |
| you | will scorn |
| they | will scorn |
Future Perfect
| I | will have scorned |
| you | will have scorned |
| he;she;it | will have scorned |
| we | will have scorned |
| you | will have scorned |
| they | will have scorned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | scorn |
| you | scorn |
| he;she;it | scorn |
| we | scorn |
| you | scorn |
| they | scorn |
Perfect
| I | have scorned |
| you | have scorned |
| he;she;it | have scorned |
| we | have scorned |
| you | have scorned |
| they | have scorned |
Imperfect
| I | scorned |
| you | scorned |
| he;she;it | scorned |
| we | scorned |
| you | scorned |
| they | scorned |
Pluperfect
| I | had scorned |
| you | had scorned |
| he;she;it | had scorned |
| we | had scorned |
| you | had scorned |
| they | had scorned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would scorn |
| you | would scorn |
| he;she;it | would scorn |
| we | would scorn |
| you | would scorn |
| they | would scorn |
Perfect
| I | would have scorned |
| you | would have scorned |
| he;she;it | would have scorned |
| we | would have scorned |
| you | would have scorned |
| they | would have scorned |
Imperative
| you | scorn |
| we | Let's scorn |
| you | scorn |
Verbs conjugated like 'scorn'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'scorn'
corn,
scern,
scon,
scoon,
score,
sorn,
adorn,
anorn,
bescorn,
coin,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to feel contempt
- despise
- to make fun of
- befool, bust on, clown around, gibe, gird, gleek, jape, jeer, jive, josh, kid, make a fool of, make fun of, make sport of, mimic, mock, needle, niggle, poke fun at, pull one's leg, razz, rib, roast, satirize, scoff, take the mickey, tease, twit
- To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
- despise
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Verb from Middle English scornen, schornen, alteration of Old French escharnir, from Vulgar Latin *escarnire, from Proto-West Germanic *skarnijan, possibly from Proto-Germanic *skeraną (“to shear”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”)), or possibly related to *skarną (“dung, filth”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱerd-, *(s)ḱer- (“dung, manure, filth”)). Noun from Old French escarn (cognate with Portuguese escárnio, Spanish escarnio and Italian scherno). Cognate with Middle High German schern (“joke, mockery, scorn”), Old English sċierniċġe (“female entertainer, juggler, actress”). See: Middle English '
scornen', Proto-Germanic '
*skeraną', Middle High German '
schern'.
Verbs referencing "scorn"
English
scunner.
Sample Sentences
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[...] most direct way to accomplish what they set their hands to, were objects of her entire contempt,—a contempt shown less frequently by anything she said, than by a kind of stony grimness, as if she scorned to say anything about the matter.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Like a certain class of modern philosophers, Dinah perfectly scorned logic and reason in every shape, and always took refuge in intuitive certainty; and here she was perfectly impregnable. No possible amount of talent, or authority, or explanation, could ever make [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] be put to field service, if she would not be peaceable. Cassy, with proud scorn, declared she _would_ go to the field. And she worked there one day, as we have described, to show how perfectly she scorned the threat.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)