insult
To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
Verb 1 meaning
To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).
“- Marvel owns your gods! - Insulting is not arguing.”
Noun 3 meanings
Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).
“The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.”
Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
Etymology
The verb is derived from Middle French insulter (modern French insulter (“to insult”)) or its etymon Latin īnsultō (“to spring, leap or jump at or upon; to abuse, insult, revile, taunt”), the frequentative form of īnsiliō (“to bound; to leap in or upon”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + saliō (“to bound, jump, leap; to spring forth; to flow down”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to spring”)).
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INSULT at a glance
INSULT has 6 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (I 1 + N 1 + S 1 + U 1 + L 1 + T 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,127 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with insult
All rhymesOne letter away
- INSULA6
- INDULT7
- INCULT8
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