Dictionary Entry
affront
affront is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
- 2transitive verb
To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.
- 3transitive verb
To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.
- 4noun
An encounter either friendly or hostile.
- 5noun
Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.
- 6noun
An offense to one's self-respect; shame.
- 7noun
a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
"turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"
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- 8verb
treat, mention, or speak to rudely
"He insulted her with his rude remarks"
"the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone"
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