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verb
- 1. speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse: "you're insulting the woman I love"
noun
- 1. a disrespectful or scornfully abusive remark or act: "he hurled insults at us"
- 2. an event which causes damage to a tissue or organ: "the movement of the bone causes a severe tissue insult"
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INSULT definition: 1. an offensive remark or action: 2. something that causes an injury or damage to the body: 3. to…. Learn more.
The meaning of INSULT is to treat with insolence, indignity, or contempt : affront; also : to affect offensively or damagingly. How to use insult in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Insult.
An insult is a rude action or remark meant to harm someone’s reputation or hurt their feelings. Insults come in many forms, often attacking the mental or physical characteristics of someone or something.
If you insult someone, you have offended that person — either intentionally or unintentionally — through your actions or words. You might insult your host if you refuse to try the dessert he made from pasta, nuts, and chocolate sauce.
INSULT meaning: 1. an offensive remark or action: 2. something that causes an injury or damage to the body: 3. to…. Learn more.
insult refers to a deliberately discourteous or rude remark or act that humiliates, wounds the feelings, and arouses anger: an insult about her foreign accent. indignity refers to an injury to one's dignity or self-respect: The prisoners suffered many indignities.
insult, indignity, affront, slight imply an act that injures another’s honor, self-respect, etc. insult implies such insolence of speech or manner as deeply humiliates or wounds one’s feelings and arouses to anger.
noun. /ˈɪnsʌlt/ Idioms. a remark or an action that is said or done in order to offend somebody. The crowd were shouting insults at the police. insult to somebody/something His comments were seen as an insult to the president. The questions were an insult to our intelligence (= too easy). Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
verb. insulted, insulting, insults. To treat or speak to with scorn, insolence, or great disrespect; subject to treatment, a remark, etc. that hurts or is meant to hurt the feelings or pride. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To affront or demean. An absurd speech that insulted the intelligence of the audience. American Heritage.
Jun 2, 2024 · insult ( countable and uncountable, plural insults) ( uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; ( countable) a particular act or statement having this effect . ( countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality ).
