Affront vs Disgust - What's the difference?
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To insult intentionally, especially openly.
* Addison
To meet defiantly; to confront.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 436:
(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
* Holland
* Shakespeare
An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
(obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.
To cause an intense dislike for something.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
Affront is a related term of disgust.
As nouns the difference between affront and disgust
is that affront is while disgust is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.As a verb disgust is
to cause an intense dislike for something.affront
English
(wikipedia affront)Verb
(en verb)- How can anyone imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?
- to affront death
- Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted .
- All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.
- That he, as 'twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia.
Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Such behavior is an affront to society.
Synonyms
* See alsodisgust
English
Verb
(en verb)- It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
- It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
Noun
(wikipedia disgust) (-)- With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.