scornful
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle English scornful; equivalent to scorn + -ful.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈskɔɹnfəl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈskɔːnfəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nfəl
- Hyphenation: scorn‧ful
Adjective
[edit]scornful (comparative more scornful, superlative most scornful)
- Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous; scathing; withering.
- Synonyms: disgraceful, pathetic, shameful, despicable, dishonorable
- 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Introites, Collectes, Epistles, and Gospels to be Used at the Celebracion of the Lordes Supper & Holy Communion, throughe the Yeare: With Proper Psalmes, and Lessons for Diuers Feastes and Dayes”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio viia, recto:
- Bleſſed is that man that hath not walked in the counſaile of the vngodly: nor ſtand in the waye of ſynners, and hath not ſit in the ſeate of ſkornefull.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 229, column 1:
- Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Silverside”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 316:
- Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. "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."
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous
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Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From scorn (“scorn”) + -ful (“-ful”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]scornful (Late Middle English, uncommon)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “scō̆rnful, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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