scornfully
/ˈskɔɹnfəli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.92 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a scornful manner; contemptuously, derisively.
Example Sentences
- ""Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?""
- ""Get drunk! Damn it, I am drunk," he said scornfully."
- "'What does he look like?' asks John Halgard. 'A salesman,' says Gerontius scornfully."
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English scorn Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful Middle English scornful Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English scornfully English scornfully Inherited from Middle English scornfully; equivalent to scornful + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈskɔɹnfəli/
- British English: /ˈskɔːnfəli/
Inflected Forms
more scornfully (comparative)
most scornfully (superlative)