Definitions for insult
ɪnˈsʌlt; ˈɪn sʌltin·sult

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. abuse, insult, revilement, contumely, vilificationnoun

   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"

2. insult, affrontverb

   a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect

   "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"

3. diss, insult, affrontverb

   treat, mention, or speak to rudely

   "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone"

GCIDE(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Insultnoun

   (Med., Biology) An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes.

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. insultnoun

   An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.

2. insultnoun

   Anything that causes offence/offense by being of an unacceptable quality.

   The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.

3. insultnoun

   Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.

4. insultverb

   To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).

5. insultverb

   To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).

6. Etymology: insultare, ultimately from salire.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Insultnoun

   Etymology: insultus, Lat. insulte, French.

   1. The act of leaping upon any thing. In this sense it has the accent on the last syllable: the sense is rare.

   The bull's insult at four she may sustain,
   But after ten from nuptial rites refrain. John Dryden, Virgil.

   2. Act of insolence or contempt.

   Take the sentence seriously, because railleries are an insult on the unfortunate. William Broome, Notes on the Odyssey.

2. To INSULTverb

   Etymology: insulter, Fr. insulto, Lat.

   1. To treat with insolence or contempt. It is used sometimes with over, sometimes without a preposition.

   The poet makes his hero, after he was glutted by the death of Hector, and the honour he did his friend by insulting over his murderer, to be moved by the tears of king Priam. Alexander Pope.

   2. To trample upon; to triumph over.

   It pleas'd the king his master very lately
   To strike at me upon his misconstruction;
   When he conjunct, and flatt'ring his displeasure,
   Tript me behind; being down, insulted, rail'd,
   And put upon him such a deal of man,
   That worthied him. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   So 'scapes the insulting fire his narrow jail,
   And makes small outlets into open air. Dryden.

   Ev'n when they sing at ease in full content,
   Insulting o'er the toil they underwent,
   Yet still they find a future task remain,
   To turn the soil. John Dryden, Virgil.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Insultverb

   the act of leaping on; onset; attack

2. Insultverb

   gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity

3. Insultverb

   to leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon

4. Insultverb

   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

5. Insultverb

   to leap or jump

6. Insultverb

   to behave with insolence; to exult

7. Etymology: [L. insultus, fr. insilire to leap upon: cf. F. insulte. See Insult, v. t.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Insult

   An insult is an expression, statement which is considered degrading, offensive and impolite. Insults may be intentional or accidental. An insult may be factual, but at the same time pejorative, such as the word "inbred".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Insult

   in-sult′, v.t. to treat with indignity or contempt: to abuse: to affront.—n. (in′sult) abuse: affront: contumely.—adjs. Insult′able, capable of being insulted; Insult′ant (rare), insulting.—n. Insult′er (obs.), one who makes an attack.—adj. Insult′ing, conveying insult: insolent: contemptuous.—adv. Insult′ingly, in an insulting or insolent manner.—n. Insult′ment (Shak.), insult. [Fr.,—L. insultāre—insilīre, to spring at—in, upon, salīre, to leap.]

Matched Categories

1. • Disrespect

Anagrams for insult »

1. sunlit

2. unlist

How to pronounce insult?

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of insult in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of insult in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of insult in a Sentence

1. Haitian Proverb:

   Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river.

2. Danny Aiello:

   My interpretation of acting at the time, because I didn't know how to build a character, was pure energy, people call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied.

3. David Ling:

   To be on board and confronted by a safety video you’re obliged to watch set in Antarctica is beyond ironic, it is the ultimate insensitive insult to the families, both immediate and wider.

4. Anonymous:

   You add insult to injury.

5. Pope Francis:

   You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

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