Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to affront
Participle: affronted
Gerund: affronting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | affront |
| you | affront |
| he;she;it | affronts |
| we | affront |
| you | affront |
| they | affront |
Perfect
| I | have affronted |
| you | have affronted |
| he;she;it | has affronted |
| we | have affronted |
| you | have affronted |
| they | have affronted |
Past
| I | affronted |
| you | affronted |
| he;she;it | affronted |
| we | affronted |
| you | affronted |
| they | affronted |
Pluperfect
| I | had affronted |
| you | had affronted |
| he;she;it | had affronted |
| we | had affronted |
| you | had affronted |
| they | had affronted |
Future
| I | will affront |
| you | will affront |
| he;she;it | will affront |
| we | will affront |
| you | will affront |
| they | will affront |
Future Perfect
| I | will have affronted |
| you | will have affronted |
| he;she;it | will have affronted |
| we | will have affronted |
| you | will have affronted |
| they | will have affronted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | affront |
| you | affront |
| he;she;it | affront |
| we | affront |
| you | affront |
| they | affront |
Perfect
| I | have affronted |
| you | have affronted |
| he;she;it | have affronted |
| we | have affronted |
| you | have affronted |
| they | have affronted |
Imperfect
| I | affronted |
| you | affronted |
| he;she;it | affronted |
| we | affronted |
| you | affronted |
| they | affronted |
Pluperfect
| I | had affronted |
| you | had affronted |
| he;she;it | had affronted |
| we | had affronted |
| you | had affronted |
| they | had affronted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would affront |
| you | would affront |
| he;she;it | would affront |
| we | would affront |
| you | would affront |
| they | would affront |
Perfect
| I | would have affronted |
| you | would have affronted |
| he;she;it | would have affronted |
| we | would have affronted |
| you | would have affronted |
| they | would have affronted |
Imperative
| you | affront |
| we | Let's affront |
| you | affront |
Verbs conjugated like 'affront'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'affront'
effront,
front,
refront,
saffron,
upfront,
affect,
affine,
afflict,
affoord,
afford,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- To insult intentionally
- enrage
- to hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult
- abuse, burn, carry, cut down, dis, diss, give stick, heckle, hurt someone's feelings, insult, lapidate, misbid, misrespect, misuse, offend, sledge, slight, sneap, wound
- insult
- slur, offense, snub, slight, injury, impertinence, indignity
- encounter
- confront, face, meet
Antonyms
- insult
- compliment, admiration, dignity, affection
- encounter
- evasion, avoidance, retreat, truce
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1315, from O.Fr.
afronter "to face, confront," lit. "to strike on the forehead," from L.L.
affrontare "to strike against," from L.
ad frontem "to the face," from
frons (gen.
frontis) "forehead." The noun is 1598, from the verb.
2. From Middle English afrounten, from Old French afronter (“to hit in the face; to defy”), from Vulgar Latin *affrontare (“to hit in the face”), from Latin ad (“to”) + frōns (“forehead”) (English front). By surface analysis, af- + front. See: Middle English '
afrounten', English '
front'.
Verbs referencing "affront"
Sranan
afrontu.
Sample Sentences
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But beſides, that ſuch a thought was inconſiſtent with the gravity of a Senate, how can one imagine that the Fathers would have dared affront the Wife of Aurelius, and the Mother of Commodus, or that they could think of giving offence to an Empreſs whom they afterwards Defied, and to an Emperor that was the darling of the army and people? [1701–03, Joseph Addison, “The Isle of Caprea”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c., published 1721, page 92:]
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European fear and contempt for the American Indian, Allen contends, largely came about because the sexual, economic, and political ways of the woman-centered tribes affronted their own patriarchal assumptions. [1986 February 15, Patricia Clark Smith, “A Fresh Wind in the Museum: The Sacred Hoop”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 39, page B7:]
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to affront death
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Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted. [1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 436:]
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Many Iſlands there lie all over that ſea : but one above the reſt, and moſt renowned, is Tazata : for thither all the ſhipping from out of the Caſpian ſea and the Scythian Ocean, doe bend their courſe and there arrive : for that all the ſea coaſts doe affront the Levant, and turne into the Eaſt. [1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The History of the World, volume I, translation of Naturalis Historia (in Classical Latin), published 1634, book VI, page 124:]
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Sweet Gertrude leaue vs too, / For we haue cloſely ſent for Hamlet hither, / That he, as ’twere by accident, may there / Affront Ophelia. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 265, column 1:]