Synonyms of the word

spurn

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
• v. (transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
• v. (transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To kick or toss up the heels.
• n. An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
• n. A kick; a blow with the foot.
• n. (obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
• n. A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

disdain

• n. (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
• n. (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.
• v. (transitive) To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be indignant or offended.

pooh-pooh

• v. (transitive) To dismiss idly with contempt or derision.

refuse

• adj. Discarded, rejected.
• n. (Britain) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
• v. (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
• v. (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
• v. (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
• n. (obsolete) refusal.

reject

• v. (transitive) To refuse to accept.
• v. (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
• n. Something that is rejected.
• n. (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.

scorn

• v. (transitive) To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
• v. (intransitive) To scoff, express contempt.
• v. (transitive) To reject, turn down.
• v. (transitive) To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
• n. (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
• n. (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
• n. (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.