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insult 音标拼音: [ɪns'ʌlt] ['ɪns ,ʌlt] n. 侮辱,无礼
vt. 傲慢无礼,侮辱,刺激 侮辱,无礼傲慢无礼,侮辱,刺激 insult n 1: 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" [ synonym: { abuse}, { insult}, { revilement}, { contumely}, { vilification}] 2: a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect; " turning his back on me was a deliberate insult" [ synonym: { insult}, { affront}] v 1: treat, mention, or speak to rudely; " He insulted her with his rude remarks"; " the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone" [ synonym: { diss}, { insult}, { affront}] Insult \ In" sult\, n. [ L. insultus, fr. insilire to leap upon: cf. F. insulte. See { Insult}, v. t.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. [ Obs.] -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity. [ 1913 Webster] The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. -- Savage. 3. ( Med., Biology) An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes. [ PJC] Syn: Affront; indignity; abuse; outrage; contumely. See { Affront}. [ 1913 Webster]
Insult \ In* sult"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Insulted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Insulting}.] [ F. insulter, L. insultare, freq. fr. insilire to leap into or upon; pref. in- in, on salire to leap. See { Salient}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Insult \ In* sult"\, v. i. 1. To leap or jump. [ 1913 Webster] Give me thy knife, I will insult on him. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon their wooden king. -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To behave with insolence; to exult. [ Archaic] [ 1913 Webster] The lion being dead, even hares insult. -- Daniel. [ 1913 Webster] An unwillingness to insult over their helpless fatuity. -- Landor. [ 1913 Webster] 113 Moby Thesaurus words for " insult": abase, abuse, affront, airs, arrogance, asperse, aspersion, atrocity, barb, be above, be contemptuous of, brickbat, call names, care nothing for, clannishness, cliquishness, contemn, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, cut, debase, defamation, defame, degrade, deride, despise, despite, dig, discourtesy, disdain, disdainfulness, disgrace, dishonor, disoblige, disparage, disparagement, disprize, dump, dump on, enormity, exclusiveness, feel contempt for, feel superior to, fleer, fleer at, flout, flouting, gibe, gibe at, gird, give offense to, hauteur, hold beneath one, hold cheap, hold in contempt, humble, humiliate, humiliation, hurl a brickbat, ignominy, indignity, injure, injury, insolence, invective, jeer, jeer at, jeering, jibe at, libel, look down upon, misprize, mock, mockery, obloquy, offend, offense, opprobrium, outrage, put down, put- down, rank low, ridicule, rump, scoff, scoff at, scorn, scornfulness, scurrility, set at naught, shame, slander, slap, slight, slur, sneer, sneer at, sneeze at, sniff at, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snort at, snottiness, sovereign contempt, superciliousness, taunt, think nothing of, toploftiness, treat with indignity, uncomplimentary remark, vituperation |
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