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Affront vs Upfront - What's the difference?

affront | upfront |

As nouns the difference between affront and upfront

is that affront is while upfront is (television) a meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season.

As an adjective upfront is

honest, frank and straightforward.

As an adverb upfront is

beforehand.

As a verb upfront is

to bring to the fore; to place up front for consideration.

affront

English

(wikipedia affront)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To insult intentionally, especially openly.
  • * Addison
    • How can anyone imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?
  • To meet defiantly; to confront.
    • to affront death
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 436:
    • Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted .
  • (obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
  • * Holland
    • All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.
  • * Shakespeare
    • That he, as 'twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
    • Such behavior is an affront to society.
  • (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    upfront

    English

    Alternative forms

    * up-front

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • honest, frank and straightforward
  • In a forward, leading or frontward position.
  • (of money) paid in advance

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • beforehand
  • (football) As an attacker
    • He's a poor defender, so we always play him upfront .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (television) A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 17, author=Bill Carter, title=As the Networks Order New Shows, Fox Moves to Consolidate Its Gains, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Virginia Heffernan, Times TV critic, reports from this week's TV upfronts , where the networks debut their new schedules. }}

    See also

    * (wikipedia "upfront")

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring to the fore; to place up front for consideration
  • * {{quote-book, 1997, Christopher Hall et al., Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, chapter=Silent and silenced voices, isbn=3110154595, editor=Adam Jaworski, page=204, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=OM4ueFfoRfcC&pg=PA204
    • , passage=What our analysis has, hopefully, upfronted is the importance to resuscitate the suppressed and silenced voices so as to show the powerful mechanisms of institutional "cases".}}