insult
insult is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
- transitive verb. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
- transitive verb. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
- transitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To leap or jump.
- intransitive verb. To behave with insolence; to exult.
- noun. a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
"turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"
- noun. 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"
- verb. 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
affront, abuse, contumely, revilement, vilification, diss
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in insult:
Common word forms
insults, insulted, insulter, insulting, insultable, insultment
Words from these letters
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