Word Meanings - INSULT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. 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;

Additional info about word: INSULT

1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INSULT)

• Affront
• Outrage
• provocation
• insult
• ill-treatment
• abuse
• wrong
• offence
• Indignity
• Insult
• rudeness
• contemptuousness
• opprobrium
• disgrace
• slight
• reproach
• ignominy
• disrespect
• outrage
• affront
• Liberty
• Freedom
• leave
• independence
• permission
• privilege
• license
• franchise
• immunity
• impropriety
• volition
• voluntariness
• exemption
• Offence
• Offense
• Attack
• sin
• crime
• umbrage
• transgression
• misdeed
• injury
• trespass
• indignity
• misdemeanor
• Outbreak
• wantonness
• mischief
• ebullition
• violence

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INSULT)

• Respect
• salute
• honor
• praise
• flatter
• compliment
• gratify
• Laud
• approve
• commend
• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to INSULT)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• IGNOMINY
  a deprivation of one's good name); in- not + nomen name: cf. F. 1. Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy. Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest. Addison. Vice begins in mistake,
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• VOLUNTARINESS
  The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• OPPROBRIUM
  Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• LEAVED
  Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. 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;
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• OFFENSELESS
  Unoffending; inoffensive.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• REBULLITION
  The act of boiling up or effervescing. Sir H. Wotton.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline