insult, affront
(noun) a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; āturning his back on me was a deliberate insultā
abuse, insult, revilement, contumely, vilification
(noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; āwhen a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuseā; āthey yelled insults at the visiting teamā
diss, insult, affront
(verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely; āHe insulted her with his rude remarksā; āthe student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyoneā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
insult (third-person singular simple present insults, present participle insulting, simple past and past participle insulted)
(transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone). [from 17th c.]
Synonym: Thesaurus:offend
Antonym: compliment
(transitive, also, figuratively, obsolete) To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically, military) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.
(intransitive, obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone). [16thā19th c.]
(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To leap or trample upon.
insult (countable and uncountable, plural insults)
(uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
Synonyms: affront, diss (slang), insultation (obsolete), offence (Britain), offense (US), pejorative, slam (US, colloquial), slight, slur, Thesaurus:offense
Antonym: compliment
(countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).
Synonyms: disgrace, outrage
(countable, medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
(countable, also, figuratively, archaic) An assault or attack; (specifically, military, obsolete) an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.
(countable, obsolete) An act of leaping upon.
• sunlit, unlist, unslit
Source: Wiktionary
In"sult, n. Etym: [L. insultus, fr. insilire to leap upon: cf. F. insulte. See Insult, v. t.]
1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. [Obs.] Dryden.
2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage.
Syn.
– Affront; indignity; abuse; outrage; contumely. See Affront.
In*sult", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Insulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Insulting.] Etym: [F. insulter, L. insultare, freq. fr. insilire to leap into or upon; pref. in- in, on + salire to leap. See Salient.]
1. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. [Obs.] Shak.
2. To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
In*sult", v. i.
1. To leap or jump. Give me thy knife, I will insult on him. Shak. Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king. Jer. Taylor.
2. To behave with insolence; to exult. [Archaic] The lion being dead, even hares insult. Daniel. An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity. Landor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
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