Insult

Verb

 * 1)  To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).
 * 2) *1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.3:
 * thou hast lost all, poor thou art, dejected, in pain of body, grief of mind, thine enemies insult over thee, thou art as bad as Job [...].
 * 1)  To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).

Synonyms

 * abuse, affront, offend, slight
 * See also Thesaurus:offend

Noun

 * 1) An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
 * 2) Anything that causes offence/offense by being of an unacceptable quality.
 * The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.

Synonyms

 * abuse, affront, offence /offense , pejorative, slam, slight, slur
 * disgrace, outrage
 * See also Thesaurus:offense

Adjectives for Insult
harsh; unfeeling; endurable; rash; crowning; biting; personal; cruel; grossest; veiled; monstrous; fresh; mortal; stinging; deadly; persistent; dire; supposed; petty.

Verbs for Insult
avenge—; barb with—; bawl—; brook—; condone—; decry—; endure—; exchange —s; fling—at; hurl—at; ignore—; shout—; suffer—; take affront at—; —grieves; — infuriates; —libels; —rebuffs; —slanders; pardon—.

Thesaurus
abase, abuse, affront, airs, arrogance, asperse, aspersion, atrocity, barb, be above, be contemptuous of, brickbat, call names, care nothing for, clannishness, cliquishness, contemn, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, cut, debase, defamation, defame, degrade, deride, despise, despite, dig, discourtesy, disdain, disdainfulness, disgrace, dishonor, disoblige, disparage, disparagement, disprize, dump, dump on, enormity, exclusiveness, feel contempt for, feel superior to, fleer, fleer at, flout, flouting, gibe, gibe at, gird, give offense to, hauteur, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, humble, humiliate, humiliation, hurl a brickbat, ignominy, indignity, injure, injury, insolence, invective, jeer, jeer at, jeering, jibe at, libel, look down upon, misprize, mock, mockery, obloquy, offend, offense, opprobrium, outrage, put down, put-down, rank low, ridicule, rump, scoff, scoff at, scorn, scornfulness, scurrility, set at naught, shame, slander, slap, slight, slur, sneer, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff at, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snort at, snottiness, sovereign contempt, superciliousness, taunt, think nothing of, toploftiness, treat with indignity, uncomplimentary remark, vituperation

Etymology
insultare:, ultimately from salire:.

Verb

 * Arabic: أهان
 * Chinese: 侮辱 (wǔrǔ)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese:
 * Persian: دشنام
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:,  оскорбить ,  обижать ,  обидеть
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: matusi
 * Urdu: بے عزت کرنا،, ذلیل کرنا,  اہانت کرنا

Noun

 * Chinese: 侮辱 (wǔrǔ)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: insulto, offesa, oltraggio, affronto, ingiuria
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Polish:, wyzwisko,  obraza


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: insultă, jignire,
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: hakaret


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Polish: obraza


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Swahili: matusi
 * Turkish: eziyet


 * : ofensa

Related terms

 * insolence
 * insultation

Anagrams

 * sunlit
 * unlist