'Insult' definitions:
Definition of 'insult'
From: WordNet
noun
A rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team" [syn: abuse, insult, revilement, contumely, vilification]
noun
A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult" [syn: insult, affront]
verb
Definition of 'Insult'
From: GCIDE
- Insult \In*sult"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Insulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Insulting.] [F. insulter, L. insultare, freq. fr. insilire to leap into or upon; pref. in- in, on + salire to leap. See Salient.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Insult'
From: GCIDE
- Insult \In*sult"\, v. i.
- 1. To leap or jump. [1913 Webster]
- Give me thy knife, I will insult on him. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To behave with insolence; to exult. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- The lion being dead, even hares insult. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Insult'
From: GCIDE
- Insult \In"sult\, n. [L. insultus, fr. insilire to leap upon: cf. F. insulte. See Insult, v. t.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity. [1913 Webster]
- The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. --Savage.
- 3. (Med., Biology) An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes. [PJC]
- Syn: Affront; indignity; abuse; outrage; contumely. See Affront. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'insult'
From: Moby 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