Wrath vs Scorn - What's the difference?
wrath | scorn |
Great anger.
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* Bible, (w) xiii. 4
(trading card games, slang) A single card that is able to destroy many creatures.
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
As nouns the difference between wrath and scorn
is that wrath is great anger while scorn is (uncountable) contempt or disdain.As verbs the difference between wrath and scorn
is that wrath is (obsolete) to anger; to enrage while scorn is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.As an adjective wrath
is (rare) wrathful; very angry.wrath
English
Noun
(en-noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
- A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Synonyms
* (great anger) fury, ireDerived terms
* grapes of wrath * wrathfulscorn
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.