Synonyms for insult
ɪnˈsʌlt; ˈɪn sʌltin·sult

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1. insultverb

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

   Synonyms:
   disgrace, slight, offend, affront, abuse, pejorative, offence, slur, outrage, offense, slam

2. insultnoun

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

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

   Synonyms:
   offend, slight, affront, abuse, slur, disgrace, slam, outrage, pejorative, offense, offence

3. insultnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   abuse, disgrace, slur, slam, affront, offense, outrage, slight, pejorative, offence

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1. insult

   One may be annoyed by the well-meaning awkwardness of a servant, irritated by a tight shoe or a thoughtless remark, vexed at some careless neglect or needless misfortune, wounded by the ingratitude of child or friend. To tease is to give some slight and perhaps playful annoyance. Aggravate in the sense of offend is colloquial. To provoke, literally to call out or challenge, is to begin a contest; one provokes another to violence. To affront is to offer some defiant offense or indignity, as it were, to one's face; it is somewhat less than to insult. Compare PIQUE.

   Synonyms:
   affront, aggravate, annoy, displease, exasperate, irritate, offend, provoke, tease, vex, wound

   Antonyms:
   conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please

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1. insultverb

   Synonyms:
   affront, outrage, dishonor, provoke, mock, ridicule

   Antonyms:
   respect, salute, honor, praise, flatter, compliment, gratify

2. insultnoun

   Synonyms:
   affront, abuse

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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"

   Synonyms:
   smear, ill-treatment, malignment, contumely, vilification, revilement, ill-usage, misuse, affront, maltreatment, abuse

2. insult, affrontverb

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

   "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"

   Synonyms:
   abuse, vilification, affront, contumely, revilement

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"

   Synonyms:
   diss, affront

Matched Categories

1. • Disrespect

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1. insultnoun

   Synonyms:
   affront, offence, indignity, outrage, abuse

2. insultverb

   Synonyms:
   affront, offend, abuse, treat with insolence, offer an indignity to

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1. insultnoun

   Synonyms:
   indignity, affront

2. insultverb

   Synonyms:
   offend, affront, flout

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1. List of paraphrases for "insult":

   affront, insults, insulting, offend, insulted, mockery, impugning, outrage, snub, slur, humiliation, offence, contempt

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How to use insult in a sentence?

1. Roseanne Barr:

   It wasn't enough to just do what they did to me, they had to so cruelly insult the people who loved that family and that show.

2. Marco Rubio:

   Every now and then, someone like that needs a taste of their own medicine because that's called a bully and he’s using the pulpit of the presidency or the presidential run to insult people.

3. President Donald Trump:

   But they don't want to raise, because they don't want to insult Amazon and they don't want to insult other companies, perhaps, that they like, the Post Office should raise the price of the packages to the companies, not to the people, to the companies and if they did that, The Post Office would be The Post Office.

4. Barack Obama:

   We're not going to strengthen our leadership around the world by allowing politicians to insult Muslims or pit groups of Americans against each other, that's not who we are. That's not keeping America safe.

5. Angela Yee:

   I do believe that this whole environment does make it women against women and we're kind of like insulting each other the same way that men insult us, so when we're talking about different bodies, 'Oh, she slept with this person,' 'She's this,' 'She's unattractive,' 'Oh, you got surgery,' this and that — all of those stabs are stabs that men take at women ... and I always feel like women need to be more supportive of each other.