Word Meanings - SCOFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach. With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. Shak. 2. An object of scorn, mockery, or derision. The scoff of withered age and beardless youth.
Additional info about word: SCOFF
1. Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach. With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. Shak. 2. An object of scorn, mockery, or derision. The scoff of withered age and beardless youth. Cowper.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCOFF)
- Gibe
- Sneer
- scoff
- ridicule
- jeer
- mock
- deride
- rail at
- taunt
- Jeer
- scout
- flout
- rally
- banter
- Scoff
- gibe
- disparagement
- contempt
- scorn
- superciliousness
- disdain
- Taunt
- Reproach
- upbraid
- rebuke
- censure
- sneer
- revile
- twit
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SCOFF)
- Compliment
- flatter
- panegyrize
- eulogize
- Laud
- praise
- approve
- commend
- Honor
- regard
- esteem
- venerate
- respect
- applaud
- salute
Related words: (words related to SCOFF)
- COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - FLATTER
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc. - REPROACHER
One who reproaches. - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - COMMENDER
One who commends or praises. - HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - RIDICULER
One who ridicules. - ESTEEM
1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of - DISDAINISHLY
Disdainfully. Vives. - CENSURER
One who censures. Sha. - REVILEMENT
The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser. - DISPARAGEMENT
1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a - 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. - HONORABLENESS
1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. - TAUNTER
One who taunts. - FLOUTER
One who flouts; a mocker. - CONTEMPTIBLY
In a contemptible manner. - CONTEMPTUOUSLY
In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor. - 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. - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - BESCORN
To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - SUTURALLY
In a sutural manner. - BEFLATTER
To flatter excessively. - DISAPPROVE
1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline - CENTRALLY
In a central manner or situation. - PASTORALLY
1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor. - MISESTEEM
Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.