insult meaning
EN
[ɪnˈsʌlt] [ˈɪn.sʌlt] [-ʌlt] 
US WInsult
- An insult is an expression, statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful. Insults may be intentional or accidental. An insult may be factual, but at the same time pejorative, such as the word "inbred".
- NounPLinsults
- An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
- Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
- The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.
- (medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
- (obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
- An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
- VerbSGinsultsPRinsultingPT, PPinsulted
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Now we have a nice crosspoted[sic] idiotfest and have invited trolls form[sic] other groups to come here and post how quake3 sucks, because they feel insulted now.
- As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own.
- In other European cities the president visited this week, people waited for his motorcade to pass to throw insults at him, requiring the police to intervene with batons, water cannons and tear gas.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Insults the tempest and outstorms the skies. — J. Barlow.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Levels of miR-126 were increased in the noninfarcted zone at 6 h after coronary artery occlusion and at 24 h following a 30-minute ischemic insult.
- She was fed up him laying on the jokes, which she found insulting.
- However, it is not yet well understood how these hemiretinal differences develop and progress following a bright light insult.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of insult in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
- en insulted
- en insults
- en insulting
- en insultingly
- fr insulte
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "insult" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.