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| Main Entry: | insulting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abusive |
| Synonyms: | biting, degrading, derogatory, discourteous, disparaging, disrespectful, hurtful, insolent, offensive, repulsive, rude, slighting, uncivil, ridiculing |
| Main Entry: | insult |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abuse, offend |
| Synonyms: | abase, affront, aggravate, annoy, blister, curse, cut to the quick, debase, degrade, deride, dishonor, disoblige, dump on, flout, gird, humiliate, injure, irritate, jeer, libel, mock, outrage, pan*, provoke, put down*, revile, ridicule, roast*, scoff, slam*, slander, slight, sneer, snub, step on one's toes, taunt, tease, underestimate, vex |
| Antonyms: | compliment, flatter, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhibiting unkind behavior or words |
| Synonyms: | censorious, defamatory, derisive, disparaging, insolent, insulting, invective, libelous, offensive, opprobrious, rude, sarcastic, scathing, scolding, scurrilous, sharp-tongued, slanderous, calumniating, castigating, contumelious, maligning, obloquious, reproachful, reviling, traducing, upbraiding, vilifying, vituperative |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, kind, respectful |
| Main Entry: | blasphemous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irreverent |
| Synonyms: | disrespectful, godless, impious, insulting, irreligious, profane, sacrilegious, swearing, ungodly, cursing, profanatory |
| Antonyms: | godly, pious, religious, respectful, reverent |
| Main Entry: | cheeky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impudent |
| Synonyms: | audacious, bold, brash, brazen, disrespectful, forward, impertinent, insolent, insulting, nervy, saucy, ballsy |
| Main Entry: | contemptuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, insolent |
| Synonyms: | audacious, bold, cavalier, cheeky, condescending, cool, derisive, disdainful, disrespectful, hard, hard-nosed, haughty, high and mighty*, insulting, opprobrious, sardonic, scornful, sneering, snippy, snobbish, snooty*, snotty*, supercilious, temperamental, uppity, upstage, cold-shoulder, contumelious, derisory, dog it, high hat, on high horse |
| Notes: | contemptible means deserving contempt, while contemptuous means bestowing contempt; the first sense of contemptuous was 'despising law and order' |
| Antonyms: | humble, polite, respected, shy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | defamatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | libelous, slanderous |
| Synonyms: | abusive, derogatory, disparaging, injurious, insulting, opprobrious, calumnious, contumelious, denigrating, detracting, detractive, maligning, traducing, vilifying, vituperative |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, approving, commending, exalting, praising |
| Main Entry: | derisive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ridiculing |
| Synonyms: | cheeky*, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, disdainful, flip*, fresh, insulting, jeering, mocking, nervy, rude, sarcastic, sassy, scornful, smart*, gally, out-of-line, scoffing, smart-alecky, taunting |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, flattering, respectful, praising |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | injurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful |
| Synonyms: | abusive, adverse, bad, baneful, corrupting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, iniquitous, insulting, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, opprobrious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, ruinous, slanderous, unhealthy, unjust, wrongful, libeling, nocent, unconducive |
| Antonyms: | assisting, beneficial, constructive, curing, fixing, good, healing, helpful, mending, nice, aiding |
| Main Entry: | insolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bold, disrespectful |
| Synonyms: | abusive, arrogant, barefaced, brassy*, brazen, breezy, contemptuous, dictatorial, discourteous, disdainful, flip*, fresh, imperative, impertinent, impolite, impudent, insubordinate, insulting, magisterial, nervy, offensive, overbearing, peremptory, pert, put down, rude, sassy*, saucy*, smart, uncivil, ungracious, contumelious, off-base, out-of-line, procacious, smart-alecky |
| Antonyms: | cowardly, humble, modest, polite, respectful, servile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opprobrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abusive, hateful |
| Synonyms: | contemptuous, damaging, defamatory, despicable, disparaging, humiliating, injurious, insolent, insulting, invective, malevolent, malign, malignant, notorious, offensive, pejorative, scandalous, scurrilous, spiteful, truculent, vile, vitriolic, vulgar, abasing, calumniatory, contumelious, debasing, defaming, denigrating, depreciative, derogative, despiteful, detractive, disgracing, dishonoring, hurting, injuring, libeling, maligning, offending, reproaching, reviling, shaming, vituperative |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, flattering, kind, nice, praising |
| Main Entry: | scurrilous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | foul-mouthed, vulgar |
| Synonyms: | abusive, coarse, defamatory, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, indecent, infamous, insulting, invective, lewd, low, nasty, obscene, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, raunchy, ribald, salacious, scabrous, scandalous, shameless, slanderous, smutty*, truculent, contumelious, offending, vituperative, vituperatory, vituperous |
| Antonyms: | clean, polite, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncivil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rude |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, barbaric, blunt, boorish, coarse, curt, discourteous, gross, gruff, ill-mannered, impolite, inconsiderate, insulting, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unfriendly, ungentlemanly, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, bad-mannered, mannerless |
| Main Entry: | mocking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncivil |
| Synonyms: | derisive, insulting, rude, sarcastic, unkind |
| Main Entry: | unflattering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfavorable |
| Synonyms: | blunt, critical, faultfinding, harsh, insulting, uncomplimentary |
| Antonyms: | becoming, flattering, adultory |
| Main Entry: | provocative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggravating |
| Synonyms: | annoying, disturbing, exciting, galling, heady, influential, insulting, intoxicating, offensive, outrageous, provoking, pushing, stimulant, stimulating, challenging, goading, incensing, inciting, inspirational, spurring |
| Antonyms: | repressive, suppressive, unprovocative |
| Main Entry: | rude |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disrespectful, rough |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, abusive, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, blunt, boorish, brusque, cheeky, churlish, coarse, crude, curt, discourteous, graceless, gross, gruff, ignorant, illiterate, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, insulting, intrusive, loutish, low, obscene, offhand, peremptory, raw, savage, scurrilous, short, surly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, wild, bad-mannered, brutish, crabbed |
| Antonyms: | kind, mannerly, nice, polite, respectful |
| Main Entry: | scornful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | characterized by scorn |
| Synonyms: | abusive, derisive, insulting, jeering, malicious, mocking, offensive, opprobrious, rude, sarcastic, scurrilous, sneering, contumelious, ironical |
| Antonyms: | flattering, polite, respectful |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attack with words |
| Synonyms: | backbite, bad-mouth, bash, belittle, berate, calumniate, cap*, castigate, cut down*, decry, defame, derogate, discount, insult, knock*, minimize, nag, offend, oppress, persecute, pick on, put down*, reproach, revile, ride*, run down*, scold, signify, slam*, slap*, smear*, sound*, trash*, upbraid, vilify, vituperate, zing*, blow off*, cuss out, cut to the quick, do a number on, dump on, give a black eye, hurl brickbat, rag on, rip up, sling mud, swear at, tear apart |
| Antonyms: | acclaim, adulate, approve, commend, compliment, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | antagonize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause problem; oppose |
| Synonyms: | alienate, anger, annoy, counteract, estrange, insult, irritate, neutralize, offend, repel, struggle, work against |
| Antonyms: | agree, aid, help |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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