Discredit vs Scorn - What's the difference?
discredit | scorn | Related terms |
To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.
The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved.
A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.
* Rogers
To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
* C. J. Smith
To scoff, express contempt.
To reject, turn down
To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
* Dryden
(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
* Bible, Psalms xliv. 13
Discredit is a related term of scorn.
As nouns the difference between discredit and scorn
is that discredit is disrepute while scorn is (uncountable) contempt or disdain.As a verb scorn is
to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.discredit
English
Verb
(en verb)- The candidate tried to discredit his opponent.
- The evidence would tend to discredit such a theory.
Synonyms
* demean, disgrace, dishonour, disprove, invalidate, tell againstDerived terms
* discreditorNoun
(-)- Later accounts have brought the story into discredit .
- It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.
Synonyms
* (degree of dishonour) demeritscorn
English
Verb
(en verb)- We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
- He scorned her romantic advances.
- She scorned to show weakness.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
- Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.