Disgrace vs Insult - What's the difference?
disgrace | insult | Synonyms |
The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
* Shakespeare
The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame; dishonor; shame; ignominy.
That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.
(obsolete) An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
* Francis Bacon
To disrespect another; to put someone out of favor.
(obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).
*, II.3.3:
To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).
(obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
* Savage
* 1987 , Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda :
Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
(medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
* 2006 , Stephen G. Lomber, Jos J. Eggermont, Reprogramming the Cerebral Cortex (page 415)
* 2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 96:
(obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
Insult is a synonym of disgrace.
In obsolete terms the difference between disgrace and insult
is that disgrace is an act of unkindness; a disfavor while insult is the act of leaping on; onset; attack.As nouns the difference between disgrace and insult
is that disgrace is the condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect while insult is an action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.As verbs the difference between disgrace and insult
is that disgrace is to disrespect another; to put someone out of favor while insult is to behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).disgrace
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(wikipedia disgrace)Noun
(en noun)- Macduff lives in disgrace .
- the interchange continually of favours and disgraces
Verb
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Verb
(en verb)- thou hast lost all, poor thou art, dejected, in pain of body, grief of mind, thine enemies insult over thee, thou art as bad as Job […].
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (to offend) abuse, affront, offend, slight * See alsoAntonyms
*complimentNoun
(en noun)- the ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief
- To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!
- The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.
- Within the complex genome of most organisms there are alternative multiple pathways of proteins which can help the individual cell survive a variety of insults , for example radiation, toxic chemicals, heat, excessive or reduced oxygen.
- (Dryden)
