The difference between Insult and Pejorative

When used as nouns, insult means an action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude, whereas pejorative means a disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.

Insult is also verb with the meaning: to be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody).

Pejorative is also adjective with the meaning: disparaging, belittling or derogatory.

check bellow for the other definitions of Insult and Pejorative

  1. Insult as a verb (transitive):

    To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).

    Examples:

    "RQ:Shakespeare As You Like It act=III scene=v page=199 column=2 passage=And why I pray you? who might be your mother / That you inſult, exult, and all at once / Ouer the wretched?"

  2. Insult as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over or against someone).

  3. Insult as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.

  1. Insult as a noun:

    An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.

  2. Insult as a noun:

    Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.

    Examples:

    "The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears."

  3. Insult as a noun (medicine):

    Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.

  4. Insult as a noun (obsolete):

    The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Dryden"

  1. Pejorative as an adjective:

    Disparaging, belittling or derogatory.

  1. Pejorative as a noun:

    A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.

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