Scorn vs Despise - What's the difference?
scorn | despise |
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
To regard with contempt or scorn.
Despise is a antonym of scorn.
Despise is a derived term of scorn.
Despise is a synonym of scorn.
As verbs the difference between scorn and despise
is that scorn is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise while despise is to regard with contempt or scorn.As a noun scorn
is contempt or disdain.scorn
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.