Synonyms for Affront:

n.
- a blinding revelation/realization/vision
- a first
- a rude awakening
- speak/talk out of turn
- step on someone's toes
- trade blows/insults
• act
- affront
• barb
- re buff
- re buffs
- re-buff
- re-buffs
• defiance
- attack
- audacity
- boldness
- confrontation
- contravention
- counteraction
- dissension
- dissent
- insolence
- insubordination
- insurgency
- obstinacy
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- resistance
- stubbornness
- temerity
• dishonor
- de gradation
- de gradations
- de-gradation
- de-gradations
- dis courtesies
- dis courtesy
- dis credit
- dis credits
- dis esteem
- dis esteems
- dis favor
- dis favors
- dis grace
- dis graces
- dis honor
- dis honors
- dis repute
- dis reputes
- dis-courtesies
- dis-courtesy
- dis-credit
- dis-credits
- dis-esteem
- dis-esteems
- dis-favor
- dis-favors
- dis-grace
- dis-graces
- dis-honor
- dis-honors
- dis-repute
- dis-reputes
• grossness
- lubricis
• humiliation
- humblings
- loss face
- mental pains
- self abasement
- self abasements
- self-abasements
- selfabasement
- selfabasements
- sub mission
- sub missions
- sub-mission
- sub-missions
- touche
• indignity
- backhanded compliments
- dis respect
- dis respects
- dis-respect
- dis-respects
- in dignities
- in dignity
- in justices
- in-dignities
- in-dignity
- in-justice
- in-justices
- take downs
- take-downs
• indocility
- dis orderliness
- dis orderlinesses
- dis-orderliness
- dis-orderlinesses
- in docilities
- in docility
- in-docilities
- in-docility
- un controllabilities
- un controllability
- un controllableness
- un controllablenesses
- un governableness
- un governablenesses
- un manageabilities
- un manageability
- un towardness
- un towardnesses
- un-controllabilities
- un-controllability
- un-controllableness
- un-controllablenesses
- un-governableness
- un-governablenesses
- un-manageabilities
- un-manageability
- un-towardness
- un-towardnesses
- wildnesses
• injury
- de formation
- de formations
- de-formation
- de-formations
- dis service
- dis services
- dis tress
- dis tresses
- dis-service
- dis-services
- dis-tress
- dis-tresses
- in juries
- in jury
- in-juries
- in-jury
- mis chief
- mis chiefs
• last straw
- final strokes
- last licks
- last-straw
- match in powder barrel
- match powder barrel
- match the powder barrel
- over loads
- over-load
- over-loads
- straw broke camel back
- straw broke camel's back
- straw broke camels back
- straw broke the camel back
- straw broke the camel's back
- straw broke the camels back
- straw that broke camel back
- straw that broke camel's back
- straw that broke camels back
- straw that broke the camel back
- straw that broke the camels back
• mortification
- bring downs
• obscenity
- Lubricity
- Vulgarness
- blueness
- dirty name
- grossness
- immodesties
- immodesty
- indelicacy
- lubricities
- porn
- profaneness
- salacities
- salacity
- scurrilousness
- sleaze
- sleazes
- smut
- vileness
• offense
- dirty dig
- muggings
- ruffled feathers
- zingers
• unruliness
- intractableness
v.
• anger
- boiled over
- boils over
- burns up
- burnt up
- dis please
- dis pleased
- dis pleases
- dis pleasing
- dis-please
- dis-pleased
- dis-pleases
- dis-pleasing
- ex acerbate
- ex acerbated
- ex acerbates
- ex acerbating
- ex asperate
- ex asperates
- ex asperating
- ex cite
- ex cited
- ex cites
- ex citing
- ex-acerbate
- ex-acerbated
- ex-acerbates
- ex-acerbating
- ex-asperate
- ex-asperated
- ex-asperates
- ex-asperating
- ex-cite
- ex-cited
- ex-cites
- gat mad
- gat nerves
- gat on nerves
- gat on one nerves
- gat on one's nerves
- gat on ones nerves
- gat one nerves
- gat one's nerves
- gat ones nerves
- get nerves
- get on one nerves
- get on ones nerves
- get one nerves
- get one's nerves
- get ones nerves
- gets mad
- gets nerves
- gets on nerves
- gets on one nerves
- gets on one's nerves
- gets on ones nerves
- gets one nerves
- gets one's nerves
- gets ones nerves
- getting mad
- getting nerves
- getting on nerves
- getting on one nerves
- getting on one's nerves
- getting on ones nerves
- getting one nerves
- getting one's nerves
- getting ones nerves
- got mad
- got nerves
- got on nerves
- got on one nerves
- got on one's nerves
- got on ones nerves
- got one nerves
- got one's nerves
- got ones nerves
- gotten mad
- gotten nerves
- gotten on nerves
- gotten on one nerves
- gotten on one's nerves
- gotten on ones nerves
- gotten one nerves
- gotten one's nerves
- gotten ones nerves
- in cense
- in censed
- in censes
- in censing
- in flame
- in flamed
- in flaming
- in-cense
- in-censed
- in-censes
- in-censing
- in-flame
- in-flamed
- in-flames
- in-flaming
- lose one temper
- lose ones temper
- made sore
- makes sore
- making sore
- raised hell
- raises hell
- steams up
- umbraged
- umbraging
• confront
- call bluff
- call one bluff
- call ones bluff
- came against
- came up against
- comes against
- comes up against
- coming against
- coming up against
- face to
- faced down
- faced to
- faced with
- faces down
- faces to
- faces up to
- faces with
- facing down
- facing to
- facing up to
- facing with
- goes against
- goes one on one
- goes one-on-one
- goes up against
- going against
- going one on one
- going one-on-one
- going up against
- made my day
- makes my day
- making my day
- meet eyeball to eyeball
- meeting eyeball to eyeball
- meeting eyeball-to-eyeball
- meets eyeball to eyeball
- meets eyeball-to-eyeball
- met eyeball to eyeball
- met eyeball-to-eyeball
- standing up to
- stands to
- stands up to
- stood to
- went against
- went one on one
- went one-on-one
- went up against
- with stand
- with standing
- with stands
- with stood
- with-stand
- with-standing
- with-stands
- with-stood
• defy
- contravene
- counter
- counteract
- countermand
- rebel
• disoblige
- dis commode
- dis commodes
- dis oblige
- dis obliged
- dis obliges
- dis obliging
- dis-commode
- dis-commodes
- dis-oblige
- dis-obliged
- dis-obliges
- dis-obliging
- in commode
- in commodes
- in convenience
- in conveniences
- in-commode
- in-commodes
- in-convenience
- in-conveniences
- puts about
- putting about
- up sets
- up setting
- up-set
- up-sets
- up-setting
• encounter
- clashed with
- clashes with
- clashing with
- did battle
- didst battle
- does battle
- doest battle
- doeth battle
- dost battle
- doth battle
• face
- all owed
- all owing
- all-owed
- all-owing
- am confronted by
- are confronted by
- art confronted by
- being confronted by
- bits bullet
- bits the bullet
- bitted bullet
- bitted the bullet
- bitting bullet
- bitting the bullet
- copes with
- flew face of
- flew in face of
- flies face of
- flies in face of
- fly face of
- flying face of
- flying in face of
- grappled with
- grapples with
- grappling with
- is confronted by
- made a stand
- made stand
- make stand
- makes a stand
- makes stand
- making a stand
- making stand
- ran in to
- run in to
- running in to
- runs in to
- squares off
- take bull by horns
- take the bull by horns
- takes bull by horns
- takes bull by the horns
- takes the bull by horns
- takes the bull by the horns
- taking bull by horns
- taking bull by the horns
- taking the bull by horns
- taking the bull by the horns
- took bull by horns
- took bull by the horns
- took the bull by horns
- took the bull by the horns
- was confronted by
- wast confronted by
- were confronted by
- wert confronted by
• flout
- de ride
- de rides
- de riding
- de-ride
- de-rides
- de-riding
- dis regard
- dis regarded
- dis regarding
- dis regards
- dis-regard
- dis-regarded
- dis-regarding
- dis-regards
- thumbed nose at
- thumbing nose at
- thumbs nose at
• fret
- ate heart out
- ate one heart out
- ate one's heart out
- ate ones heart out
- carried a heavy load
- carried heavy load
- carries a heavy load
- carries heavy load
- carry heavy load
- carrying a heavy load
- carrying heavy load
- distressed oneself
- distresses oneself
- distressing oneself
- eat one heart out
- eat ones heart out
- eating heart out
- eating one heart out
- eating one's heart out
- eating ones heart out
- eats heart out
- eats one heart out
- eats one's heart out
- eats ones heart out
- gat in to a dither
- gat in to dither
- gat into a dither
- gat into dither
- get in to a dither
- get in to dither
- get into dither
- gets in to a dither
- gets in to dither
- gets into a dither
- gets into dither
- getting in to a dither
- getting in to dither
- getting into a dither
- getting into dither
- got in to a dither
- got in to dither
- got into a dither
- got into dither
- gotten in to a dither
- gotten in to dither
- gotten into a dither
- gotten into dither
- loses sleep over
- losing sleep over
- lost sleep over
- sweated it out
- sweated out
- sweating it out
- sweats it out
- sweats out
- upsets oneself
- upsetting oneself
• insult
- cut quick
- cut the quick
- cut to quick
- cuts quick
- cuts the quick
- cuts to quick
- cuts to the quick
- cutting quick
- cutting the quick
- cutting to quick
- cutting to the quick
- de base
- de based
- de basing
- de grade
- de graded
- de grades
- de grading
- de-base
- de-based
- de-basing
- de-grade
- de-graded
- de-grades
- de-grading
- dis honored
- dis honoring
- dis-honored
- dis-honoring
- dumping on
- dumps on
- re vile
- re-vile
- step on one toes
- step on ones toes
- step on toes
- step one toes
- step one's toes
- step ones toes
- step toes
- stepped on one toes
- stepped on one's toes
- stepped on ones toes
- stepped on toes
- stepped one toes
- stepped one's toes
- stepped ones toes
- stepped toes
- stepping on one toes
- stepping on one's toes
- stepping on ones toes
- stepping on toes
- stepping one toes
- stepping one's toes
- stepping ones toes
- stepping toes
- steps on one toes
- steps on one's toes
- steps on ones toes
- steps on toes
- steps one toes
- steps one's toes
- steps ones toes
- steps toes
- under estimate
- under estimated
- under estimates
- under estimating
- under-estimate
- under-estimated
- under-estimating
• irritate
- dis temper
- dis tempered
- dis tempering
- dis tempers
- dis-temper
- dis-tempered
- dis-tempering
- dis-tempers
- drave the wall
- drave up the wall
- drave up wall
- drave wall
- drive the wall
- drive up wall
- drive wall
- drives the wall
- drives up the wall
- drives up wall
- drives wall
- driving the wall
- driving up the wall
- driving up wall
- driving wall
- drove the wall
- drove up the wall
- drove up wall
- drove wall
- rub wrong way
• meet
- brushed against
- brushes against
- brushing against
- bump in to
- chanced on
- chances on
- chancing on
- digged up
- fall with
- falling in with
- falling with
- falls in with
- falls with
- fell in with
- fell with
- made a meet
- made meet
- make meet
- makes a meet
- makes meet
- making a meet
- making meet
- meet face face
- meeting face face
- meeting face to face
- meets face face
- meets face to face
- met face face
- met face to face
- ran across
- ran against
- ran up against
- rendezvoused with
- rendezvouses with
- rendezvousing with
- rubbed eyeballs
- rubbing eyeballs
- rubs eyeballs
- running across
- running against
- running up against
- runs across
- runs against
- runs up against
- touched shoulders
- touches shoulders
- touching shoulders
• mortify
- be littles
- be-little
- be-littles
- dis appoint
- dis appointed
- dis appointing
- dis appoints
- dis comfit
- dis comfits
- dis graced
- dis gracing
- dis-appoint
- dis-appointed
- dis-appointing
- dis-appoints
- dis-comfit
- dis-comfits
- dis-graced
- dis-gracing
- gat comeuppance
- gat one comeuppance
- gat one's comeuppance
- gat ones comeuppance
- get one comeuppance
- get ones comeuppance
- gets comeuppance
- gets one comeuppance
- gets one's comeuppance
- gets ones comeuppance
- getting comeuppance
- getting one comeuppance
- getting one's comeuppance
- getting ones comeuppance
- got comeuppance
- got one comeuppance
- got one's comeuppance
- got ones comeuppance
- gotten comeuppance
- gotten one comeuppance
- gotten one's comeuppance
- gotten ones comeuppance
- put shame
- sub due
- sub dues
- sub-due
- sub-dues
- take wind out
- takes down a peg
- takes down peg
- takes the wind out
- takes wind out
- taking down a peg
- taking down peg
- taking the wind out
- taking wind out
- took down peg
- took the wind out
- took wind out
• neglect
- Pretermitted
- Pretermitting
- de tested
- de testing
- de-tested
- de-testing
- dis counted
- dis counting
- dis counts
- dis missed
- dis missing
- dis-counted
- dis-counting
- dis-counts
- dis-missed
- dis-missing
- had nothing do with
- had nothing to do with
- haddest nothing do with
- haddest nothing to do with
- hadst nothing do with
- hadst nothing to do with
- has nothing do with
- has nothing to do with
- hast nothing do with
- hast nothing to do with
- hath nothing do with
- hath nothing to do with
- have nothing do with
- having nothing do with
- having nothing to do with
- keep arm length
- keep arms length
- keep at arm length
- keep at arms length
- keep one distance
- keep ones distance
- keeping arm length
- keeping arm's length
- keeping arms length
- keeping at arm length
- keeping at arm's length
- keeping at arms length
- keeping distance
- keeping one distance
- keeping one's distance
- keeping ones distance
- keeps arm length
- keeps arm's length
- keeps arms length
- keeps at arm length
- keeps at arm's length
- keeps at arms length
- keeps distance
- keeps one distance
- keeps one's distance
- keeps ones distance
- kept arm length
- kept arm's length
- kept arms length
- kept at arm length
- kept at arm's length
- kept at arms length
- kept distance
- kept one distance
- kept one's distance
- kept ones distance
- laughed off
- laughing off
- laughs off
- letted go
- lived with
- makes light of
- making light of
- over look
- over looked
- over looks
- over-look
- over-looking
- over-looks
- paid no attention to
- paid no mind
- passes up
- passing up
- payed no attention to
- payed no mind
- paying no attention to
- pays no attention to
- pays no mind
- pretermits
- re buffed
- re buffing
- re-buffed
- re-buffing
- tuned out
- tunes out
- tuning out
Other synonyms:

•

despite
first
shock

•

blow

Other relevant words:

• confront

• discredit

dishonor

• disoblige

put about
up set

• flout

• irritate

Distempered
Distempering
drive up the wall
get on nerves
get under skin
irritates

• meet

• neglect

• snigger

• Other relevant words (adjective):

speech
state

• Other relevant words (noun):

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

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Independent
- Noun, singular or mass
  assault, attainment, breach, contravention, defamation, disgrace, impairment, outrage, provocation, shame, slur, snub.
Other Related
- Noun, singular or mass
  accomplishment, achievement, attack, contempt, desecration, encroachment, humiliation, infringement, insult, mockery, offence, offense, violation.

What are the hypernyms for Affront?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for affront (as nouns)
- act
  scandalisation, indignity, scandalization, outrage.

What are the hyponyms for Affront?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for affront (as nouns)
- act
  offense, discourtesy, offensive activity, offence.
hyponyms for affront (as verbs)
- communication
  hurt, bruise, offend, wound, injure, spite.

What are the opposite words for affront?

Affront, which means an insulting or disrespectful act, can have several antonyms depending on the context. One possible antonym could be "reverence," which means deep respect or admiration. Another antonym could be "compliment," which is a polite expression of praise or admiration. Alternatively, "flattery" could be considered an antonym, which is excessive or insincere praise used to win favor or gain something. In some cases, "deference" could also be an antonym, which is a polite and respectful submission or yield to someone else's opinion or authority. Ultimately, the antonym for "affront" will depend on the particular situation and the intended meaning.

What are the antonyms for Affront?

n.
• an insult
- aid
- appeasement
- compliment
- flattery
- happiness
- help
- kindness
- pleasantry
- praise
- respect
- right
• noun
- acclaim
- accolade
- adulation
- applause
- commendation
- conciliate
- content
- honor
v.
• insult or involve in entanglement
- appease
- approve
- assuage
- avoid
- calm
- delight
- flatter
- gratify
- make happy
- mollify
- placate
- please
- retreat
- satisfy
- soothe
• noun
- adore
- deify
- disarm
- gladden
- glorify
- pacify
- propitiate
- rejoice
- revere
- reverence
- venerate

Usage examples for Affront

It never once occurred to her that Martin could publicly affront her at breakfast and forget all about it before dinner.

"The Locusts' Years"

Mary Helen Fee

She could not afford to affront him, or anger him, if she could help it.

"The Man from Jericho"

Edwin Carlile Litsey

And as I have no reason for being agreeable to that lady, I trust that I shall be able to prevent her putting this new affront on my young friend.

"Monsieur Cherami"

Charles Paul de Kock

Famous quotes with Affront

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

William F. Buckley, Jr.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

Jon Corzine
Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

Alexander Haig
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

Jean Ingelow
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Thomas Paine

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