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)
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.