insult
verb
• speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse.
• "you're insulting the woman I love"
Similar:
offend,
give/cause offence to,
affront,
abuse,
be rude to,
call someone names,
slight,
disparage,
discredit,
libel,
slander,
malign,
defame,
denigrate,
cast aspersions on,
impugn,
slur,
revile,
calumniate,
hurt,
hurt someone's feelings,
mortify,
humiliate,
wound,
snub,
rebuff,
spurn,
shun,
treat disrespectfully,
ignore,
cut dead,
give someone the cold-shoulder,
turn one's back on,
bad-mouth,
slag off,
trash-talk,
sledge,
asperse,
derogate,
miscall,
abusive,
rude,
vulgar,
offensive,
wounding,
mortifying,
humiliating,
disparaging,
belittling,
derogatory,
depreciating,
deprecatory,
disrespectful,
denigratory,
uncomplimentary,
pejorative,
vituperative,
disdainful,
derisive,
scornful,
contemptuous,
defamatory,
slanderous,
libellous,
scurrilous,
blasphemous,
discrediting,
bitchy,
catty,
contumelious,
insult
noun
• a disrespectful or scornfully abusive remark or act.
• "he hurled insults at us"
Similar:
abusive remark,
jibe,
affront,
slight,
snub,
barb,
slur,
backhanded compliment,
injury,
libel,
slander,
defamation,
abuse,
disparagement,
depreciation,
impugnment,
revilement,
humiliation,
indignity,
insolence,
rudeness,
aspersions,
dig,
put-down,
slap in the face,
kick in the teeth,
sledge,
contumely,
• an event which causes damage to a tissue or organ.
• "the movement of the bone causes a severe tissue insult"
Origin:
mid 16th century (as a verb in the sense ‘exult, act arrogantly’): from Latin insultare ‘jump or trample on’, from in- ‘on’ + saltare, from salire ‘to leap’. The noun (in the early 17th century denoting an attack) is from French insulte or ecclesiastical Latin insultus . The main current senses date from the 17th century, the medical use dating from the early 20th century.
