verb, noun
verb [VN] to say or do sth that offends sb:
I have never been so insulted in my life! * She felt insulted by the low offer. * You insult my intelligence (= you are treating me as if I am stupid)!
noun sth( a remark or an action that is said or done in order to offend sb:
The crowd were shouting insults at the police. * His comments were seen as an insult to the president. * The questions were an insult to our intelligence )= too easy(.
IDIOMS see ADD
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for insult is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does insult appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — insult appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
