Word Meanings - SPURN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

offend; akin to spura spur, OS. & OHG. spurnan to kick, Icel. spyrna, L. spernere to despise, Skr. sphur to jerk, to push. sq. root171. See 1. To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick. with his foot will spurn adown his cup. Chaucer. I

Additional info about word: SPURN

offend; akin to spura spur, OS. & OHG. spurnan to kick, Icel. spyrna, L. spernere to despise, Skr. sphur to jerk, to push. sq. root171. See 1. To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick. with his foot will spurn adown his cup. Chaucer. I spurn thee like a cur out of my way. Shak. 2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt. What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn. Shak. Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet. Locke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPURN)

• Kick
• rebel
• resist
• spurn
• Scorn Contemn
• despise
• slight
• disdain
• disregard
• sibilate
• vilipend
• scout

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SPURN)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to SPURN)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• REBELLOW
  To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• DISDAINISHLY
  Disdainfully. Vives.
• DISDAINFUL
  Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. From these Turning disdainful to an equal good. Akenside. -- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• SPURN-WATER
  A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• DISDAINED
  Disdainful. Revenge the jeering and disdained contempt Of this proud king. Shak.
• SCORNER
  One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion. "Great scorners of death." Spenser. Superly he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Prov. iii. 34.
• SIBILATE
  To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.
• SCORNY
  Deserving scorn; paltry.
• REBELLION
  Among the Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance to their government by nations that had been subdued in war. It was a 1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes
• REGARDLESS
  1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
• SLIGHT
  Sleight. Spenser.
• RESISTANT
  Making resistance; resisting. -- n.
• BESCORN
  To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• CEREBELLAR; CEREBELLOUS
  Pertaining to the cerebellum.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• UNRESISTED
  1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.
• CEREBEL
  The cerebellum. Derham.