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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | embarrassment, humiliation |
| Synonyms: | abuse, affront, backhanded compliment, contumely, discourtesy, dishonor, disrespect, grievance, injury, injustice, insult, obloquy, opprobrium, outrage, put-down, reproach, slap, slight, slur, snub, take-down, taunt |
| Antonyms: | dignity, esteem, honor, regard, respect |
| Main Entry: | blasphemy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
| Synonyms: | abuse, cursing, cussing, desecration, execration, heresy, impiety, impiousness, imprecation, indignity, lewdness, profanation, profaneness, profanity, reviling, sacrilege, scoffing, scurrility, swearing, vituperation |
| Antonyms: | godliness, piety, religion, religiousness, reverence |
| Main Entry: | contempt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disdain, disrespect |
| Synonyms: | antipathy, audacity, aversion, condescension, contumely, defiance, derision, despisal, despisement, despite, disesteem, disregard, distaste, hatred, indignity, malice, mockery, neglect, recalcitrance, repugnance, ridicule, scorn, slight, snobbery, stubbornness |
| Notes: | contempt is a more engaged, more involved feeling of disapproval than disdain |
| Antonyms: | admiration, affection, approbation, approval, endorsement, love, regard, respect, sanction |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insult |
| Synonyms: | abuse, hateful remark, indignity, offense |
| Antonyms: | compliment, nicety, praise |
| Main Entry: | dishonor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of shame |
| Synonyms: | abasement, abuse, affront, blame, degradation, discourtesy, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, disgrace, disrepute, ignominy, indignity, infamy, insult, obloquy, odium, offense, opprobrium, outrage, reproach, scandal, slight |
| Antonyms: | credit, esteem, honor |
| Main Entry: | humiliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | embarrassment |
| Synonyms: | abasement, affront, chagrin, comedown, comeuppance, condescension, confusion, degradation, discomfiture, disgrace, dishonor, humbling, ignominy, indignity, loss of face, mental pain, mortification, put-down, resignation, self-abasement, shame, submission, submissiveness, touché |
| Antonyms: | elevation, flattery, glorification, praise, success, triumph |
| Main Entry: | injury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurt, harm |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, abuse, affliction, affront, agony, bad, bite, blemish, boo-boo, bruise, burn, chop, cramp, cut, damage, deformation, detriment, discomfiture, disservice, distress, evil, fracture, gash, grievance, hemorrhage, ill, impairment, indignity, injustice, insult, laceration, lesion, libel, loss, mischief, misery, mutilation, nick, ouch, outrage, pang, ruin, scar, scratch, shock, slander, sore, sprain, stab, sting, suffering, swelling, trauma, twinge, wound, wrong |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, benefit, blessing, favor, good, health, help, right |
| Main Entry: | insult |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hateful communication |
| Synonyms: | abuse, affront, aspersion, black eye, blasphemy, cheap shot, contempt, contumely, derision, despite, discourtesy, disdainfulness, disgrace, disrespect, ignominy, impertinence, impudence, incivility, indignity, insolence, invective, libel, mockery, obloquy, offense, opprobrium, outrage, put-down, rudeness, scorn, scurrility, shame, slam, slander, slap, slap in the face, slight, snub, superciliousness, taunt, unpleasantry, vilification, vituperation |
| Antonyms: | compliment, flattery, praise |
| Main Entry: | offense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insult, displeasure |
| Synonyms: | affront, aggression, assailment, assault, attack, battery, black eye, blitz*, blitzkrieg, dig*, dirty dig, harm, hit*, hurt, indignation, indignity, injury, injustice, left-handed compliment, mugging, onset, onslaught, outrage, push*, put-down, slam*, slap in the face, slight, snub, zinger |
| Antonyms: | kindness, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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