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Distasteful vs Insulting - What's the difference?

distasteful | insulting | Related terms |

Distasteful is a related term of insulting.


As adjectives the difference between distasteful and insulting

is that distasteful is having a bad or foul taste while insulting is containing insult, or having the intention of insulting.

As a verb insulting is

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As a noun insulting is

the act of giving insult.

distasteful

English

Alternative forms

* distastefull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a bad or foul taste.
  • (figuratively) Unpleasant.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • Offensive.

    • Antonyms

    * pleasant, pleasing

    insulting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Containing insult, or having the intention of insulting.
    • He received an insulting letter.

    Derived terms

    * insultingly

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving insult.
  • * (Isaac Barrow)
    • grievous reproaches, and scornful insultings over him in his affliction

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