Home › Words › S › scomfitscomfitscomfit means discomfiture.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, scomfit ranks #10,376 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyClipping of discomfit.noundiscomfitureverbTo defeat, vanquish.e.g.“For now here was one knyȝt scomfyte x knyghtes” — 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).