Synonyms of the word

insult

• v. (transitive) To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).
• v. (obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
• n. An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
• n. Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
• n. (medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
• n. (obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

abuse

• n. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice…
• n. Misuse; improper use; perversion.
• n. (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
• n. Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
• n. (now rare) Catachresis.
• n. Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
• n. Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose…
• v. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner…
• v. (transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.

affront

• v. To insult intentionally, especially openly.
• v. To meet defiantly; to confront.
• v. (obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
• n. An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
• n. (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

bruise

• v. (transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such…
• v. (transitive) To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way.
• v. (intransitive) Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
• v. (intransitive) To become bruised.
• v. (intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
• n. (medicine) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that…
• n. A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.

contumely

• n. Offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.

discourtesy

• n. Lack of courtesy; rudeness.
• n. A rude act.

disrespect

• n. A lack of respect, esteem or courteous behaviour.
• v. (transitive) To show a lack of respect to someone or something.

diss

• v. (US, Britain, slang) To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive…
• n. (slang) An insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect.
• abbr. dissertation.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

injure

• v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
• v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
• v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

offence

• n. British spelling standard spelling of offense.

offend

• v. (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
• v. (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
• v. (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
• v. (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
• v. (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

offense

• n. The act of offending.
• n. The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
• n. (team sports) (often /ˈɒ fɛns/) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted…
• n. (team sports) (often /ˈɒ fɛns/) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so;…

revilement

• n. The act of reviling.

spite

• n. Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire…
• n. (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
• v. (transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
• v. (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
• prep. Notwithstanding; despite.

vilification

• n. slanderous or malicious defamation; character assassination.

wound

• n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
• v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.