different between insult vs miscall
insult
English
Etymology
The verb is derived from Middle French insulter (modern French insulter (“to insult”)) or its etymon Latin ?nsult?re, present active infinitive of ?nsult? (“to spring, leap or jump at or upon; to abuse, insult, revile, taunt”), the frequentative form of ?nsili? (“to bound; to leap in or upon”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + sali? (“to bound, jump, leap; to spring forth; to flow down”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to spring”)).
The noun is derived from Middle French insult (modern French insulte (“insult”)) or its etymon Late Latin insultus (“insult, reviling, scoffing”), from ?nsili? (“to bound; to leap in or upon”); see above.
Pronunciation
- Verb:
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ?ns?lt?, IPA(key): /?n?s?lt/
- Noun:
- enPR: ?n?s?lt, IPA(key): /??ns?lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt
- Hyphenation: in?sult
Verb
insult (third-person singular simple present insults, present participle insulting, simple past and past participle insulted)
- (transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone). [from 17th c.]
- Synonyms: disrespect, affront, disgrace, slander, discourtesy, offense
- Antonym: compliment
- (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To assail, assault, or attack; (specifically, military) to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone). [16th–19th c.]
- (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To leap or trample upon.
Conjugation
Related terms
- insolence
- insultation
Translations
Noun
insult (countable and uncountable, plural insults)
- (uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.
- Synonyms: affront, (slang) diss, (obsolete) insultation, (Britain) offence, (US) offense, pejorative, (US, colloquial) slam, slight, slur; see also Thesaurus:offense
- Antonym: compliment
- (countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).
- Synonyms: disgrace, outrage
- (countable, medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.
- (countable, also figuratively, archaic) An assault or attack; (specifically, military, obsolete) an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.
- (countable, obsolete) An act of leaping upon.
Derived terms
- add insult to injury
Translations
References
Further reading
- insult on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- insult (medical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- insult (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- sunlit, unlist, unslit
Catalan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in?sul(t)/
Noun
insult m (plural insults)
- insult
Related terms
- insultar
Further reading
- “insult” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [in?sult]
Verb
insult
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of insulta
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miscall
English
Etymology
From Middle English miscallen, equivalent to mis- +? call.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m?sk??l/
Verb
miscall (third-person singular simple present miscalls, present participle miscalling, simple past and past participle miscalled)
- (now dialectal) To call (someone) bad names; to insult, abuse.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- He there exhorts us to hear with patience and humility those, however they be miscall'd, that desire to live purely, in such a use of Gods Ordinances, as the best guidance of their conscience gives them, and to tolerat them, though in some disconformity to our selves.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- To call (something) by the wrong name.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 48:
- ‘In this country, peasants miscall it “Cowslip,” though of course the true Cowslip, Primula veris, is a different plant altogether.’
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 48:
- (poker, transitive) To make a wrong call; to announce (one's hand of cards) incorrectly.
- 1983, David M. Hayano, Poker Faces: The Life and Work of Professional Card Players (page 59)
- When the loser thinks he has the hand beat he turns over his hand only to find that the winner has miscalled his hand, and since "cards speak," the miscaller wins.
- 1983, David M. Hayano, Poker Faces: The Life and Work of Professional Card Players (page 59)
miscall From the web:
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