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insultive

adj

Etymology

From insult + -ive.

  1. derived from insultus — “insult, reviling, scoffing”
  2. derived from insult
  3. derived from *sel-✻ — “to spring”
  4. derived from īnsultō — “to spring, leap or jump at or upon; to abuse, insult, revile, taunt”
  5. derived from insulter
  6. suffixed as insultive — “insult + ive”

Definitions

  1. Insulting.

    • Perhaps it was the too-tooing of the youth on the coach horn which frustrated the proposal, and made it appear ludicrous rather than insultive to her ears.
    • Mr. Olive: Normally I would, but he wasn't insultive or abusive. He just drove right up- he said, "Please clean the beach up when you get through and took right off."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA