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Synonyms for affront
əˈfrʌntaf·front
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
affront
One may be annoyed by the well-meaning awkwardness of a servant, irritated by a tight shoe or a thoughtless remark, vexed at some careless neglect or needless misfortune, wounded by the ingratitude of child or friend. To tease is to give some slight and perhaps playful annoyance. Aggravate in the sense of offend is colloquial. To provoke, literally to call out or challenge, is to begin a contest; one provokes another to violence. To affront is to offer some defiant offense or indignity, as it were, to one's face; it is somewhat less than to insult. Compare PIQUE.
Synonyms:
aggravate, annoy, displease, exasperate, insult, irritate, offend, provoke, tease, vex, woundAntonyms:
conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
affront
Synonyms:
outrage, provocation, insult, ill-treatment, abuse, wrong, offence, indignityAntonyms:
homage, salutation, courtesy, apology, amends, compliment
Princeton's WordNet
insult, affrontverb
a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
"turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"
Synonyms:
abuse, vilification, contumely, revilement, insultdiss, insult, affrontverb
treat, mention, or speak to rudely
"He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1673 | wrong | |
#2225 | abuse | |
#7144 | offense | |
#8184 | shame | |
#9117 | wound | |
#10353 | offence | |
#17420 | tease | |
#17766 | insult | |
#20114 | outrage | |
#20785 | annoy | |
#23039 | offend | |
#23887 | diss | |
#26899 | provoke | |
#39860 | provocation | |
#40443 | mockery | |
#47688 | irritate | |
#54523 | vex | |
#55038 | aggravate | |
#58771 | snub | |
#59341 | slur | |
#62754 | affront | |
#94076 | indignity | |
#94285 | vilification | |
#132236 | displease | |
#227873 | exasperate | |
#314700 | contumely |
How to use affront in a sentence?
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
What's new is the affront to the Lebanese state, at the end of the day, Hezbollah is an important part of the country. The Lebanese government will tell the Americans, as it has before, that these are a part we can not ignore.
Mr. Clarridge has incomplete knowledge of the daily, not weekly briefings, that Dr. Carson receives on important national security matters from former military and state department officials. He is coming to the end of a long career of serving our country, mr. Clarridge's input to Dr. Carson is appreciated but he is clearly not one of Dr. Carson's top advisors. For The New York Times to take advantage of an elderly gentleman and use him as their foil in this story is an affront to good journalistic practices.
Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen:
The separate judicial rulings reversing his conviction and ordering his release are an affront to terrorism victims everywhere.
Translations for affront
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- оскърбление, обида, оскърбявам, излизам насреща наBulgarian
- AffrontGerman
- insultoEsperanto
- ofender, afrenta, afrentarSpanish
- vastustaa, solvata, loukata, solvaus, loukkaus, herjataFinnish
- envoyer un cartel, se confronter, défi, défier, rencontre, jeter le gant, affront, aller sur le pré, rencontrer sur le terrain, duelFrench
- վիրավորանք, վիրավորելArmenian
- affrontoItalian
- beledigingDutch
- afrontaPortuguese
- afrontRomanian
- оскорбление, оскорблятьRussian
- förolämpning, skymfa, skymf, förolämpaSwedish
- 冒犯Chinese
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