Affront

Verb

 * 1) To insult intentionally, especially openly.
 * 2) To meet defiantly; to confront.
 * 3)  To meet or encounter face to face.

Noun

 * 1) An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
 * 2)  A hostile encounter or meeting.

Adjectives for Affront
rude; personal;  sacrilegious;  deliberate; unmerited; unintentional; intolerable; vile; unnecessary; brutal; boorish; ill-mannered; brazen.

Adverbs for Affront
impudently; brazenly; rudely; personally; sacrilegiously; deliberately; unmeritedly; unintentionally; intolerably; vilely; unnecessarily; brutally; boorishly; ill-manneredly.

Synonyms for Affront
insult, irritate, provoke, taunt, vex, annoy, exasperate, tease, aggravate, offend.

Antonyms for Affront
please, appease, satisfy, mollify, assuage.

Thesaurus
aggrieve; aspersion; atrocity; barb; beard; bell the cat; bid defiance; bite the bullet; brave; brazen; brazen out; breast; brickbat; bring before; bring forward; bring up; call names; call out; casus belli; challenge; confront; confront with; contempt; contumely; criticize; cut; dare; defamation; defy; despite; dig; dishonor; disoblige; dispraise; double-dare; dump; dump on; encounter; enormity; envisage; face; face out; face the music; face up; face up to; face with; fleer at; flout; flouting; front; gibe; gibe at; give offense; give offense to; give umbrage; grieve; humiliate; humiliation; hurl a brickbat; hurt; hurt the feelings; indignity; injury; insult; jeer; jeer at; jeering; jibe at; lay before; meet; meet boldly; meet head-on; meet squarely; mock; mockery; offend; offense; outdare; outrage; place before; present to; provocation; put down; put it to; put-down; raw nerve; red rag; run the gauntlet; scoff; scoff at; scream defiance; scurrility; set at defiance; set before; show fight; slap; slight; sore point; sore spot; speak out; speak up; stand up to; stare down; stem; sting; taunt; tender spot; treat with indignity; uncomplimentary remark; wound