Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“scorns” is a form of

scorn

UK /skɔːn/ · US /skɔɹn/ verb, noun

Forms scorns scorning scorned

  1. verb (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
  2. verb (transitive) To reject, turn down with disdain. “He scorned her romantic advances.”
  3. verb (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself. “She scorned to show weakness.”
  4. verb (intransitive) To scoff, to express contempt.
  5. noun (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
  6. noun (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
  7. noun (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

Synonyms

contemn disdain despect disrespect despise disesteem look down on misrespect spurn fleer flout gird jeer jibe scoff deride mock ridicule sneer laugh at contempt despite reject freeze off pooh-pooh turn down

Etymology

Verb from Middle English scornen, schornen, alteration of Old French escharnir, from Vulgar Latin *escarnire, from Proto-West Germanic *skarnijan, possibly from Proto-Germanic *skeraną (“to shear”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”)), or possibly related to *skarną (“dung, filth”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱerd-, *(s)ḱer- (“dung, manure, filth”)). Noun from Old French escarn (cognate with Portuguese escárnio, Spanish escarnio and Italian scherno). Cognate with Middle High German schern (“joke, mockery, scorn”), Old English sċierniċġe (“female entertainer, juggler, actress”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which aprings from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
  2. noun An act or expression of extreme contempt.
  3. verb To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.
  4. verb To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.

Etymology [OE. scorn, scarn, scharn, OF. escarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin; cf. OHG. skern mockery, skern to mock; but cf. also OF. escorner to mock.]

Etymology [OE. scornen, scarnen, schornen, OF. escarning, escharnir. See Scorn, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “scorn”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “scorn” (best matches first).