What is another word for insolent?
Synonyms for insolent
ˈɪn sə ləntin·so·lent
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Wiktionary
insolentadjective
Synonyms:
cocky, offensive, bold, insubordinate, impudent, arrogant, disrespectful, impertinentinsolentadjective
insulting in manner or words
Synonyms:
offensive, impertinent, insubordinate, arrogant, cocky, disrespectful, bold, impudentinsolentadjective
rude
Synonyms:
impudent, arrogant, impertinent, offensive, cocky, insubordinate, disrespectful, boldinsolentadjective
cheeky
Synonyms:
offensive, impertinent, bold, cocky, arrogant, impudent, insubordinate, disrespectful
English Synonyms and Antonyms
insolent
Synonyms:
awkward, bluff, blunt, boorish, brusk, clownish, coarse, discourteous, ill-behaved, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, impudent, insulting, raw, rude, rustic, uncivil, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, untaught, untutoredAntonyms:
accomplished, civil, complaisant, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, elegant, genteel, gracious, obliging, polished, polite, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
insolent
Synonyms:
haughty, overbear, ing, contemptuous, abusive, saucy, impertinent, opprobrious, offensive, pert, outrageous, scurrilous, rude
Princeton's WordNet
impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed, flipadjective
marked by casual disrespect
"a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
Synonyms:
impertinent, wise, smart, fresh, bodacious, barefaced, snotty-nosed, brazen-faced, flip, bald-faced, saucy, brassy, sassy, audacious, overbold, impudent, brazenAntonyms:
ashamed(p), respectfulaudacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolentadjective
unrestrained by convention or propriety
"an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
Synonyms:
brazen, brazen-faced, flip, meretricious, audacious, gimcrack, loud, brassy, flashy, intrepid, fearless, hardy, bodacious, venturous, daring, cheap, trashy, venturesome, brave, gaudy, garish, tatty, unfearing, bald, snotty-nosed, tawdry, brasslike, impudent, barefaced, bald-faced, dauntless, flash, tackyAntonyms:
respectful, ashamed(p)
Dictionary of English Synonymes
insolentadjective
Synonyms:
impertinent, impudent, saucy, pert, malapert, flippant, rude, abusive, overbearing, domineering, contemptuous, without humility or self-respect
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
insolentadjective
Synonyms:
impudent, contumelious, overbearing, disrespectful contemptuous
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#827 | cheap | |
#1174 | flash | |
#2085 | fresh | |
#2207 | smart | |
#3079 | raw | |
#3945 | bold | |
#4045 | ing | |
#4991 | wise | |
#6274 | offensive | |
#6888 | loud | |
#7356 | flip | |
#8981 | bald | |
#9772 | brave | |
#10393 | hardy | |
#11372 | blunt | |
#11750 | bluff | |
#12199 | rude | |
#13365 | abusive | |
#14475 | coarse | |
#15519 | rustic | |
#17155 | outrageous | |
#17452 | awkward | |
#18719 | daring | |
#19616 | sassy | |
#20982 | trashy | |
#21751 | arrogant | |
#23219 | fearless | |
#25618 | intrepid | |
#25644 | insulting | |
#28104 | cheeky | |
#33469 | flashy | |
#38672 | tacky | |
#40695 | saucy | |
#41497 | pert | |
#44447 | brazen | |
#46069 | disrespectful | |
#47881 | cocky | |
#51684 | audacious | |
#53063 | haughty | |
#59182 | gaudy | |
#67211 | conceited | |
#69948 | insolence | |
#70480 | insolent | |
#71724 | impolite | |
#76304 | contemptuous | |
#76851 | snotty | |
#79242 | garish | |
#84515 | uncivil | |
#85672 | tatty | |
#95093 | dauntless | |
#96968 | brassy | |
#98549 | uncouth | |
#98669 | bodacious | |
#100861 | tawdry | |
#103529 | impudent | |
#109233 | impertinent | |
#109339 | unpolished | |
#116449 | unashamed | |
#117069 | boorish | |
#129990 | scurrilous | |
#172837 | discourteous | |
#179637 | insubordinate | |
#201184 | untutored | |
#209600 | meretricious | |
#237471 | clownish | |
#242317 | venturesome | |
#261906 | untaught | |
#277340 | barefaced | |
#285694 | opprobrious |
How to use insolent in a sentence?
Consider, and you will find that almost all the transactions of the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for consulship?yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.
Kyiv is becoming increasingly insolent in its aggressiveness towards the Minsk agreements, the Russian Federation, and in its attempts to provoke the West to support its military ambitions.
Translations for insolent
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- وقحArabic
- insolentCatalan, Valencian
- drzýCzech
- uforskammetDanish
- frechGerman
- αυθάδηςGreek
- insolenteSpanish
- گستاخPersian
- rFinnish
- insolentFrench
- ढीठHindi
- arcátlan, pökhendi, szemtelen, pimaszHungarian
- insolenteInterlingua
- kurang ajarIndonesian
- insolenteItalian
- חָצוּףHebrew
- 横柄なJapanese
- 건방진Korean
- insolens, feroxLatin
- brutaal, onbeschaamdDutch
- uforskammetNorwegian
- niegrzeczny, bezczelny, chamskiPolish
- insolentePortuguese
- insolentRomanian
- вызывающий, наглыйRussian
- oförskämd, ofSwedish
- ஆணவம் பிடித்தTamil
- อวดดีThai
- küstahTurkish
- нахабнийUkrainian
- گستاخUrdu
- xấc xượcVietnamese
- ינסאַלאַנטYiddish
- 粗野Chinese
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