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.
• REVILEMENT
  The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• 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.