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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective insolent has 2 senses
- insolent(s = adj.all) flip, impudent, snotty-nosed - marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior" Derived forms noun insolence2, noun insolence1
- insolent(s = adj.all) audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced - unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress" Derived form noun insolence1
CIDE DICTIONARY
insolent, a. [F. insolent, L. insolens, -entis, pref. in- not + solens accustomed, p. pr. of solere to be accustomed.].
- Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual. [1913 Webster]"If one chance to derive any word from the Latin which is insolent to their ears . . . they forthwith make a jest at it." [1913 Webster]"If any should accuse me of being new or insolent." [1913 Webster]
- Haughty and contemptuous or brutal in behavior or language; overbearing; domineering; grossly rude or disrespectful; saucy; as, an insolent master; an insolent servant. Shak. [1913 Webster]"Insolent is he that despiseth in his judgment all other folks as in regard of his value, of his cunning, of his speaking, and of his bearing." [1913 Webster]"Can you not see? or will ye not observe . . .
How insolent of late he is become,
How proud, how peremptory?" [1913 Webster] - Proceeding from or characterized by insolence; insulting; as, insolent words or behavior. [1913 Webster]"Their insolent triumph excited . . . indignation."
Syn. -- Overbearing; insulting; abusive; offensive; saucy; impudent; audacious; pert; impertinent; rude; reproachful; opprobrious.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
insolent, adj. offensively contemptuous or arrogant; insulting.
Derivative
insolence n. insolently adv.
Etymology
ME, = 'arrogant', f. L insolens (as IN-(1), solens pres. part. of solere be accustomed)
THESAURUS
insolent
abusive, arrogant, assuming, atrocious, audacious, aweless, backhand, backhanded, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, callous, calumnious, cavalier, challenging, cheeky, cocky, cold, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, crude, daring, defiant, defying, degrading, derisive, dictatorial, discourteous, disdainful, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful, familiar, forward, fresh, greatly daring, hard, hardened, haughty, high-and-mighty, hubristic, humiliating, impenitent, imperative, impertinent, impolite, improvident, imprudent, impudent, inaffable, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insubordinate, insulting, irreverent, left-handed, lofty, magisterial, obdurate, obtrusive, offensive, outrageous, overbearing, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, overpresumptuous, oversure, overweening, peremptory, pert, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, pushy, rash, regardless of consequences, ridiculing, rude, saucy, scurrile, scurrilous, self-appointed, self-elect, supercilious, superior, temerarious, unabject, unaccommodating, unchary, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncontrite, uncourteous, uncourtly, ungallant, ungracious, unmelted, unpolite, unrepentant, unrepenting, unsoftened, unspeakable, untouched, unwary, uppish, uppity, wise, would-beROGET THESAURUS
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Insolence
N insolence, haughtiness, arrogance, airs, overbearance, domineering, tyranny, impertinence, sauciness, flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster, swagger, swaggering, bounce, terrorism, assumption, presumption, beggar on horseback, usurpation, impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass, shamelessness, effrontery, hardened front, face of brass, assumption of infallibility, saucebox, insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary, high-handed, high and mighty, contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown, flippant, pert, fresh, cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert, precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious, bluff, brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed, brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced, dead to shame, lost to shame, impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking, jaunty, janty, roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing, thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury, with a high hand, ex cathedra, one's bark being worse than his bite, beggars mounted run their horse to death, quid times? Caesarem vehis, wagahai wa (expressing superiority).
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