Insult

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness. See Synonyms at offend.
  • v. To affront or demean: an absurd speech that insulted the intelligence of the audience.
  • v. Obsolete To make an attack on.
  • verb-intransitive. Archaic To behave arrogantly.
  • verb-intransitive. Archaic To give offense; offend: a speech that was intended to insult.
  • n. An offensive action or remark.
  • n. Medicine A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma.
  • n. Something that causes bodily injury, irritation, or trauma: "the middle of the Bronx, buffeted and poisoned by the worst environmental insults that urban America can dish out” ( William K. Stevens).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
  • n. Anything that causes offence/offense by being of an unacceptable quality.
  • n. Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
  • n. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity.
  • n. An injury to an organism; trauma.
  • v. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
  • v. To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse.
  • verb-intransitive. To leap or jump.
  • verb-intransitive. To behave with insolence; to exult.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To leap upon; specifically, to make a sudden, open, and bold attack upon; attack in a summary manner, and without recourse to the usual forms of war.
  • To offer an indignity to; treat contemptuously, ignominiously, or insolently, either by speech or by action; manifest scorn or contempt for.
  • To leap or jump.
  • To behave with insolent triumph; exult contemptuously: with on, upon, or over.
  • n. The act of leaping on anything.
  • n. An assault; a summary assault; an attack.
  • n. An affront, or a hurt inflicted upon one's self-respect or sensibility; an action or utterance designed to wound one's feelings or ignominiously assail one's self-respect; a manifestation of insolence or contempt intended to provoke resentment; an indignity.
  • n. Contemptuous treatment; outrage.
  • In pathology, to injure; inflict traumatism upon.
  • n. In pathology, external violence which causes a lesion.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. treat, mention, or speak to rudely
  • n. a rude expression intended to offend or hurt
  • n. a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
  • Antonym
    consider    flattery   
    Verb Form
    insulted    insulting    insults   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bruise    hurt    offend    spite    injure    wound   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    contumely    abuse    outrage    affront    indignity    onset    attack    trauma    exult    sauce   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adult    bult    consult    cult    exult    occult    result   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    outrage    abuse    injustice    violence    wrong    injury    contempt    threat    oppression    cruel