Affront

English

Verb

Affront (third-person singular simple present Affronts, present participle Affronting, simple past and past participle Affronted)

1. To insult intentionally, especially openly.
2. To meet defiantly; to confront.
3. (obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.

Noun

Affront (plural Affronts)

1. An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
2. (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

Adjectives for Affront

rude; personal; sacrilegious; deliberate; unmerited; unintentional; intolerable; vile; unnecessary; brutal; boorish; ill-mannered; brazen.

Adverbs for Affront

impudently; brazenly; rudely; personally; sacrilegiously; deliberately; unmeritedly; unintentionally; intolerably; vilely; unnecessarily; brutally; boorishly; ill-manneredly.

Synonyms for Affront

insult, irritate, provoke, taunt, vex, annoy, exasperate, tease, aggravate, offend.

Antonyms for Affront

please, appease, satisfy, mollify, assuage.

Thesaurus

aggrieve; aspersion; atrocity; barb; beard; bell the cat; bid defiance; bite the bullet; brave; brazen; brazen out; breast; brickbat; bring before; bring forward; bring up; call names; call out; casus belli; challenge; confront; confront with; contempt; contumely; criticize; cut; dare; defamation; defy; despite; dig; dishonor; disoblige; dispraise; double-dare; dump; dump on; encounter; enormity; envisage; face; face out; face the music; face up; face up to; face with; fleer at; flout; flouting; front; gibe; gibe at; give offense; give offense to; give umbrage; grieve; humiliate; humiliation; hurl a brickbat; hurt; hurt the feelings; indignity; injury; insult; jeer; jeer at; jeering; jibe at; lay before; meet; meet boldly; meet head-on; meet squarely; mock; mockery; offend; offense; outdare; outrage; place before; present to; provocation; put down; put it to; put-down; raw nerve; red rag; run the gauntlet; scoff; scoff at; scream defiance; scurrility; set at defiance; set before; show fight; slap; slight; sore point; sore spot; speak out; speak up; stand up to; stare down; stem; sting; taunt; tender spot; treat with indignity; uncomplimentary remark; wound

Etymology

From Middle English afrounten < Old French afronter (“to defy”) < Vulgar Latin *affrontare (“to hit in the face”) < Latin ad (“to”) + frons (“forehead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /əˈfɹʌnt/, SAMPA: /@"fr\Vnt/
• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Translations

Verb

to insult intentionally, especially openly

Armenian: վիրավորել (hy) (viravorel) Bulgarian: оскърбявам (bg) Dutch: belediging (nl) f. Finnish: loukata (fi), solvata (fi), herjata (fi)

French: défier (fr), jeter le gant (fr), envoyer un cartel (fr) Russian: оскорблять (ru) Spanish: afrentar (es), ofender (es)

to meet defiantly; confront

Bulgarian: излизам насреща на (bg) Finnish: vastustaa (fi)

French: se confronter (fr)

to meet or encounter face to face

French: rencontrer sur le terrain (fr), aller sur le pré (fr)

Noun

open or intentional offense, slight, or insult

Armenian: վիրավորանք (hy) (viravorank’) Bulgarian: обида (bg), оскърбление (bg) Finnish: loukkaus (fi), solvaus (fi) French: défi (fr) m., affront (fr) m. German: Affront (de) m.

Italian: affronto (it) m. Portuguese: afronta (pt) f. Russian: оскорбление (ru) n. Spanish: afrenta (es) f.

hostile encounter or meeting

French: duel (fr) m., rencontre (fr) m.

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French

Etymology

from Old French afront

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /a.fʁɔ̃/, SAMPA: /a.fRO~/

Noun

Affront m. (plural Affronts)

1. affront, insult, snub

Derived terms

• afront

Anagrams

• offrant