Definitions of affront

1. To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

2. To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.

3. To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.

4. To insult intentionally.

5. To meet front to front: to insult openly.

6. To meet face to face; to insult; to offend.

7. To insult openly; to abash; to front.

8. To give cause of offence to; to insult slightly.

9. Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.

10. An offense to one's self- respect; shame.

11. An insult.

12. Contemptuous treatment.

13. Insult; offence.

14. An open insult.

15. Insult; contemptuous or rude treatment.

16. Anything done to offend; an outrage; open insult.