| Insulting 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Insult. 2. (a.) Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. Thesaurus Entries abusive, arrogant, atrocious, audacious, backhand, backhanded, bumptious, calumnious, cold, contumelious, cool, degrading, disdainful, familiar, forward, hubristic, humiliating, insolent, left-handed, obtrusive, offensive, outrageous, overpresumptuous, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, pushy, scurrile, scurrilous, unspeakable, uppish, uppity |