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  1. INSULT definition: 1. an offensive remark or action: 2. something that causes an injury or damage to the body: 3. to…. Learn more.

  2. The meaning of INSULT is to treat with insolence, indignity, or contempt : affront; also : to affect offensively or damagingly. How to use insult in a sentence.

  3. Insult definition: to treat or speak to insolently or with contemptuous rudeness; affront.. See examples of INSULT used in a sentence.

  4. insult in American English. (ɪnˈsʌlt ; for n. ˈɪnˌsʌlt ) verb transitive. 1. to treat or speak to with scorn, insolence, or great disrespect; subject to treatment, a remark, etc. that hurts or is meant to hurt the feelings or pride. 2. Obsolete. to attack; assail.

  5. Summary. Surgery of any kind represents a traumatic insult to the body and is accompanied by a verifiable stress response dependent on the magnitude of the insult. While the general principles of broad-based anaesthesia have been covered in Section 1, Chapters 2, 3 and 4, the purpose of this chapter is to alert the reader to operative ...

    • Colin Pinnock, Robert Haden
    • 2009
  6. corrections and revisions to definitions, pronunciation, etymology, headwords, variant spellings, quotations, and dates; new senses, phrases, and quotations which have been added in subsequent print and online updates. Revisions and additions of this kind were last incorporated into insult, n. in July 2023.

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  8. If you insult someone, you have offended that person — either intentionally or unintentionally — through your actions or words. You might insult your host if you refuse to try the dessert he made from pasta, nuts, and chocolate sauce.

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