Affront

Definitions: Affront

Affront

Noun

1. A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult".

Verb

1. Treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks".

Date "affront" was first used: sometime around 1330. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	This is a bad dream. The dreamer is sure to shed tears and weep. For a young woman to dream that she is affronted, denotes that some unfriendly person will take advantage of her ignorance to place her in a compromising situation with a stranger, or to jeopardize her interests with a friend. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Affront properly means to stand front to front. In savage nations opposing armies draw up front to front before they begin hostilities, and by grimaces, sounds, words, and all conceivable means, try to provoke and terrify their vis-�-vis. When this "affronting" is over, the adversaries rush against each other, and the fight begins in earnest. Affront. A salute; a coming in front of another to salute. "Only, sir, this I must caution you of, in your affront, or salute, never to move your hat." - Green: Tu Quoque, vii. 95. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonym: Affront

Synonym: insult (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Courage	Verb: be courageous; Adjective: dare, venture, make bold; face danger, front danger, affront danger, confront danger, brave danger, defy danger, despise danger, mock danger; look in the face; look full in the face, look boldly in the face, look danger in the face; face; meet, meet in front; brave, beard; defy.
Disrespect	Vilipendency, vilification, contumely, affront, dishonor, insult, indignity, outrage, discourtesy; practical joking; scurrility, scoffing, sibilance, hissing, sibilation; irrision; derision; mockery; irony; (ridicule); sarcasm.
	Dishonor, desecrate; insult, affront, outrage.
Forgiveness	Verb: forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury. excuse, pass over, overlook; wink at; (neglect); bear with; allow for, make allowances for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront.
Malevolence	Ill turn, bad turn; affront; (disrespect); outrage, atrocity; ill usage; intolerance, persecution; tender mercies; " unkindest cut of all".
Pain	Sorry sight, heavy news, provocation; affront; "head and front of one's offending".
	Irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile, tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe, enrage, ruffle, sour the temper; give offense; (resentment).
Resentment	Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.
	Affront, provocation, offense; indignity; (insult); grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli; ill turn, outrage.
Submission	Pocket the affront; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; grin and abide, grin and bear it, shrug the shoulders, resign oneself; submit with a good grace; (bear with).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Affront

English words defined with "affront": Affrontee, Affronting, Affrontive, Affrontiveness ♦ indignity, insult ♦ Overlead ♦ Resentingly ♦ To put up with ♦ Weapons of offense. (references)

Specialty definitions using "affront": Fledgeby ♦ Pickwickian ♦ SLAG. (references)

Etymologies containing "affront": Overlead ♦ sobriquet. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Affront" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (abuse, insult), French (abuse, affront, insult, outrage, slight, slur), German (slight).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Yes it is. You are a human affront to all women and I am a woman. (When Harry Met Sally...; writing credit: Nora Ephron)
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Domain	Title
Books	An Affront to the Gospel?: The Radical Barth and the Southern Baptist Convention (American Academy of Religion Academy Series, N0 56) (reference) Torture Worldwide: An Affront to Human Dignity (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	God having made the parents instruments in his great design of continuing the race of mankind, and the occasions of life to their children; as he hath laid on them an obligation to nourish, preserve, and bring up their offspring; so he has laid on the children a perpetual obligation of honouring their parents, which containing in it an inward esteem and reverence to be shewn by all outward expressions, ties up the child from any thing that may ever injure or affront, disturb or endanger, the happiness or life of those from whom he received his; and engages him in all actions of defence, relief, assistance and comfort of those, by whose means he entered into being, and has been made capable of any enjoyments of life: from this obligation no state, no freedom can absolve children. (Second Treatise of Government)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Guatemala	The Government's use of sacred sites as revenue-generating tourist destinations is considered by some indigenous groups to be an affront to their spiritual rights. (references)
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	The continuing holding of American hostages in Iran is both an affront to civilized people everywhere, and a serious impediment to meeting the self-evident threat to widely-shared common interests, including those of Iran.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Affront" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.42% of the time. "Affront" is used about 153 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.42%	146	26,107
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2.61%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.31%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	0.65%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	153	N/A

Expressions using "affront": give affront to ♦ pocket the affront ♦ suffer an affront. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "affront"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fyerje (contumely, displeasure, flout, grievance, indignity, injury, insult, offence, opprobrium, resentment, umbrage, vituperation), fyej (aggrieve, damnify, deal, desecrate, disoblige, displease, grieve, injure, insult, offend, outrage, pique, revile, trespass, vex, vituperate). (various references)

Arabic		‏مذلة (obsequiousness, servility), ‏تحدى (be provoked, be taunted, beard, brave, challenge, confront, dare, defy, fly in the face of, outface, pick a quarrel, quarrel, take on), ‏إهانة (crinkle, degradation, despite, dishonor, dishonour, flout, indignity, injury, insolence, insult, mortification, offence, reflection, reflexion, slap, slur, tawdriness, umbrage), ‏أهان (abase oneself, debase, degrade, dishonor, dishonour, flout, give offence, give offense, injure, insult, malign, offend, oppress, outrage, revile, slap, slight, take offence, take offense). (various references)

Bulgarian		оскърбявам (abuse, huff, insult, offend, outrage), оскърбление (abuse, contumely, flout, galling, hurt, insult, knock, offence, outrage), обиждам (abuse, aggrieve, belabor, belabour, dishonor, dishonour, give offense, give umbrage, huff, hurt, injure, insult, inveigh, offend, outrage, slight, spite, vituperate, wrong), обида (cut, dishonor, dishonour, hurt, indignity, injury, insult, offence, offense, outrage, resentment, slight, slur, umbrage, wound, wrong), афронтирам, афронт (slap in the face), публично оскърбление, посрещам (face, greet, meet, satisfy, see in). (various references)

Chinese		�'犯. (various references)

Czech		vzdorovat (defy, oppose), veřejnì urazit, urážka (brickbat, contumely, injury, insult, offence, outrage, violence), potupa (disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, indignity, outrage). (various references)

Farsi		مواجهه (Encounter), هتاکی , اشکاراتوهین کردن , رودرروءی , روبرودشنام دادن , بی حرمتی (Disrespect, Violence). (various references)

Finnish		solvaus (abuse, abusive language, abusive terms, defamatory speech, diatribe, insult, slander), loukkaus (insult, offence, violation), häväistys (blasphemy, insult, profanation, violation). (various references)

French		affront, offenser, offense, insulter, insulte, injure, défier. (various references)

German		beleidigung (abuse, abusive language, defamation, defamatory speech, diatribe, indignity, insult, libel, offence, offense, scathe, slander, slur), beleidigen (abuse, insult, libel, offend, outrage, slander, slight, to affront, to insult, to offend). (various references)

Greek		προσβολή (access, assault, attack, blow, derogation, fit, indignity, infestation, insult, invective, mortification, offence, outrage, slur, stroke, umbrage). (various references)

Hebrew		לעלוב (humiliate, insult, put to shame), לעלב (humiliate, insult), ל�"לעיב (insult, sneer), ל�"עליב (abash, give offense, insult, miff, offend, slight), ל�"כלים (insult, put to shame, shame), לביש (disgrace, shame, wearable), פ�'יע�" בכבו�" (disrespect, insult, lese majesty), עלבון (humiliation, insult, offence, opprobrium, umbrage), כלימ�" (disgrace, insult, opprobrium, reproach, shame), �"עלב�" (abashment, insulting, invective), �"כלמ�" (abashment, insulting). (various references)

Hungarian		sértés (abuse, aggrievement, flout, humiliation, injury, insult, lesion, offence, offense, wound). (various references)

Indonesian		nista (insult, insulted, stigma). (various references)

Italian		affronto (cut, indignity, insult, offence, offense, scathe, slight, snub), affrontare (brave, breast, come to blows, confront, dare, deal with, encounter, face, face up to, head, meet, square up, stand up to, tackle), onta (disgrace, insul, offence, offense, shame), offesa (attack, damage, insult, offence, offense, umbrage), insulto (abuse, abusive, abusive language, defamatory speech, diatribe, insult, taunt), insultare (abuse, flout, insult, offend, revile). (various references)

Manx		flout (aspersion, gibe, invective, rebuff, rebuttal, reproach, scorn, slander, snub, stigma, taunt, vituperation), cur sneih da, brasnaghey (aggravation, bait, incense, incite, irritate; incitement, provocation, rev, spur, to provoke). (various references)

Pig Latin		affrontay

Portuguese		afrontar (brave, confront, provoke), afronta (dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, indignity, insult, outrage, snub, take down, wrong), ofender (abuse, aggrieve, bespatter, bruise, despite, dishonor, dishonour, displeasing, grieve, harmful, huff, hurt, injure, insult, miscarriage, offend, outrageous, shock, stab), insulto (abuse, contumely, indignity, injury, insult, lash, scurrility, taunt, vituperation), insultar (abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw, fly into a passion, insult, outrage, revile, vituperate), enfrentar (beard, breast, confront, confront with, encourage, envision, face, front burner, obvious, outbrave, stand up to). (various references)

Romanian		afront (insult, outrage), sta faţa în faţa cu, sfida (beard, brave, defy, face, mock, outbrave, outdare, scoff), ofensa (abuse, damage, huff, hurt, injure, insult, mortify, offend, spite, touch, vex), jignire (abuse, cut, humiliation, hurt, injury, insult, offence, rub, wound, wrong), insultã (abuse, contumely, dirt, hurt, insult, invective, offence, slap, slur), brava (beard, brave it out, defy, face, outdare). (various references)

Russian		оскорблять (desecrate, dishonor, dishonour, insult, offend, revile), оскорбление (abuse, contumely, indignity, injury, insult, obloquy, offence, offense, opprobrium, outrage, wound). (various references)

Scottish		n� irich (cause shame), miabadh (humiliation), maslaich (degrade, reproach), masladh (disgrace, reproach). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uvrediti (give offense, hurt, insult, offend, outrage, pique), uvreda (assault, contumely, dudgeon, grievance, hurt, indignity, insult, knock, offence, offense, outrage, pique, umbrage, wound), suočiti (confront), pogrda (contumely). (various references)

Spanish		afrenta. (various references)

Swedish		förolämpa (insult, offend), chikanera (insult), chikan (chicane, insult). (various references)

Turkish		küçük düşürmek (abase, bring into contempt, debase, degrade, depreciate, detract, disparage, give affront to, give smb. the wall, humiliate, lessen, lower, make smb. feel small, run down, score smb. off, snub, stigmatize, stultify, take smb. down a peg), hakaret etmek (defame, desecrate, give affront to, insult, outrage, revile, revile against smth., revile at smth., slight, vituperate), hakaret (contempt, contumely, cuss word, defamation, epithet, hotfoot, indignity, insult, invective, opprobrium, outrage, revilement, slap, slap in the face, slight, slur, snub), gücendirmek (badger, chafe, disoblige, displease, gall, give offence, give offense, give umbrage, huff, miff, offend, pique, tread on smb.'s corns, vex). (various references)

Ukranian		сутичка (affair, bump, bustle, clash, collision, conflict, encounter, fight, fighting, fray, impingement, jostle, mix in, rencontre, rencounter, scramble, scrimmage, scrummage, shock, skirmish, tilt), соромити (abash, shame), кривда (offence, offense), кривдити (offend), образа (abuse, contumely, dishonor, dishonour, dudgeon, grievance, grouch, indignity, injury, insult, obloquy, offence, offense, opprobrium, outrage, resentment, snub, umbrage, wound), ображати (abuse, damnify, dishonor, dishonour, frump, huff, humiliate, injure, insult, offend, outrage, revile, umbrage), межувати (abut, adjoin, approach, border, butt, neighbor upon, neighbour upon, outskirt, touch on, verge), зустріти сміливо (face up to), бентежити (abash, bewilder, confound, confuse, damp, dank, daunt, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discourage, dismay, disorder, embarrass, embrangle, flummox, muddle, overset, perplex, perturb, puddle, puzzle, upturn). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự sỉ nhục (abuse, abusiveness, indignity), sự lăng nhục, sự lăng mạ (contumacy, contumeliousness, despite, insult). (various references)

Welsh		tramgwyddo (aggrieve, offend, stumble, take offence), sar.hau (injury, insult), sar.had (disgrace, injury, insult). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ad frontem. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	afronter. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "affront": affronted, affronting, affronts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Affront" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: affort, affrine, affronty, afrench, afront. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "affront" (pronounced ufru"nt)
5	-f r u" n t	confront, front.
4	-r u" n t	brunt, grunt.
3	-u" n t	blunt, Hunt, Lunt, punt, shunt, stunt.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-f-n-o-r-t"
	-2 letters: front, trona.
	-3 letters: fano, faro, fart, font, fora, fort, frat, nota, raff, raft, rant, rato, roan, rota, tarn, taro, toff, tora, torn.
	-4 letters: aff, aft, ant, arf, art, fan, far, fat, fon, for, fro, nor, not, oaf, oar, oat, off, oft, ora, ort, ran, rat, rot, tan, tao, tar, ton, tor.
	-5 letters: an, ar, at, fa, na, no, of, on, or, ta, to.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-f-n-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: affronts.
	+2 letters: affronted, nontariff.
	+3 letters: affronting, stroganoff.
	+4 letters: affirmation, afforesting, diffraction, insufflator.
	+5 letters: affirmations, diffractions, insufflators, overstaffing.
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