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Scornful vs Mocker - What's the difference?

scornful | mocker |

As an adjective scornful

is showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.

As a noun mocker is

a person who mocks.

scornful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.
  • *
  • *:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful . "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

    • mocker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who mocks.
  • A mockingbird.
  • (archaic) A deceiver; an impostor.

    • Derived terms

    * mocker nut * put the mockers on