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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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an offensive remark or action: make an insult She made several insults about my appearance. insult to The steelworkers ' leader rejected the two percent pay rise saying it was an insult to the profession.
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 an expression, statement, or behavior that is often deliberately disrespectful, offensive, scornful, or derogatory towards an individual or a group. Insults can be intentional or unintentional, and they often aim to belittle, offend, or humiliate the target.
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.
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.
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.
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. Want to learn more?
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.
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.
Definitions of 'insult' 1. If someone insults you, they say or do something that is rude or offensive. [...] 2. An insult is a rude remark, or something a person says or does which insults you. [...] 3. See to add insult to injury [...] More. Conjugations of 'insult' present simple: I insult, you insult [...]
