Affront

//əˈfɹʌnt//

Synonyms for "affront" (152 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

10 entries

Synonyms

2 entries

Related terms

1 entries

derived

5 entries

etymologically related_to

1 entries

related to

7 entries

Translations

85 translations across 27 languages.

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Armenian

2 entries
  • վիրավորանք noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • վիրավորել verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • обида noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • оскърбление noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • излизам насреща на verb (to meet defiantly; confront)
  • оскърбявам verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Catalan

3 entries
  • afront noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • greuge noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • ofensa noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)

Czech

3 entries
  • urážka noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • urazit verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)
  • vysmívat se verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Danish

1 entries
  • fornærme verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Dutch

1 entries
  • beledigen verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • insulto noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)

Estonian

1 entries
  • solvang noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)

Finnish

4 entries
  • loukkaus noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • solvaus noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • herjata verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)
  • loukata verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

French

4 entries
  • affront noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • duel noun (hostile encounter or meeting)
  • défi noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • rencontre noun (hostile encounter or meeting)

Galician

2 entries
  • afronta noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • axe noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)

German

2 entries
  • Affront noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • beleidigen verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Greek

1 entries
  • ύβρις noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • sértés noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • sért verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Irish

2 entries
  • tarcaisne noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • maslaigh verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Italian

2 entries
  • affronto noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • insultare verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Latin

1 entries
  • offensa noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • на́вреда noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • соочу́вање noun (hostile encounter or meeting)
  • спротивставу́вање noun (hostile encounter or meeting)
  • на́вреди verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Māori

4 entries
  • muhani verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)
  • muheni verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)
  • whakamania verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)
  • whakamanioro verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • fornærmelse noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)

Polish

3 entries
  • afront noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • awania noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • afrontować verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • afronta noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • afrontar verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)
  • afrontar verb (to meet defiantly; confront)
  • encarar verb (to meet defiantly; confront)

Romanian

2 entries
  • afront noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • afront noun (hostile encounter or meeting)

Russian

2 entries
  • оскорбле́ние noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • оскорбля́ть verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • konfrontacija noun (hostile encounter or meeting)
  • suočavanje noun (hostile encounter or meeting)
  • ȕvreda noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • у̏вреда noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)

Spanish

4 entries
  • afrenta noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • afruenta (disused) noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • baldón noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • afrentar verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Swedish

4 entries
  • förolämpning noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • skymf noun (open or intentional offense, slight, or insult)
  • förolämpa verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)
  • skymfa verb (to insult intentionally, especially openly)

Sample sentences

15 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Those who threatened the religious order were severely punished. The reason for this is, of course, obvious. The religious authorities gave the monarch divine right, and an affront to the religious establishment was a threat to the monarch's power.

Source: tatoeba (6051498)

“If a lady,” he said, “asked him any question upon the subject, he would neither answer her nor speak to her again while he lived; if a gentleman, he would consider it as a mortal affront, and demand satisfaction as having received such.”

Source: tatoeba (7752113)

Yanni took that as a personal affront.

Source: tatoeba (9774018)

Placing a restriction on the number of example sentences that non-native speakers can offer in English is an affront to their intelligence and the significant efforts they make to contribute to this collaborative project.

Source: tatoeba (11847561)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.