Scornfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈskɔɹnfəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈskɔːnfəl/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)nfəl
• ハイフネーション: scorn‧ful

形容詞

scornful (comparative more scornful, superlative most scornful)

1. Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous; scathing; withering.

   Synonyms: disgraceful, pathetic, shameful, despicable, dishonorable

   • 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Introites, Collectes, Epistles, and Gospels to be Used at the Celebracion of the Lordes Supper & Holy Communion, throughe the Yeare: With Proper Psalmes, and Lessons for Diuers Feastes and Dayes”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […], →OCLC, folio viia, recto:

     Bleſſed is that man that hath not walked in the counſaile of the vngodly: nor ſtand in the waye of ſynners, and hath not ſit in the ſeate of ſkornefull.

   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 229, column 1:

     Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brovv, / And dart not ſcornefull glances from thoſe eies, / To vvound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Silverside”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 316:

     Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

派生語

• scornfully
• scornfulness

語源

From scorn (“scorn”) +‎ -ful (“-ful”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈskɔrnful/, /ˈskɔːrnful/

形容詞

scornful (Late Middle English, uncommon)

1. scornful, contemptuous
2. mocking, derisive
3. (rare) deceitful, misleading

派生語

• scornfully

派生した語

• English: scornful
• Scots: scornfu

参照

• “scō̆rnful, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.