insolent

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin insolens (“unaccustomed, unwanted, unusual, immoderate, excessive, arrogant, insolent”), from in- (privative prefix) + solens, present participle of solere (“to be accustomed, to be wont”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsə.lənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsə.lənt/

insolent (comparative more insolent, superlative most insolent)

1. insulting in manner or words

   Synonyms: arrogant, bold, cocky, impudent

2. rude
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosus, […]!”

   Synonyms: disrespectful, impertinent, insubordinate, offensive

3. cheeky

• See also Thesaurus:cheeky
• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

• insolently

insolent (plural insolents)

1. a person who is insolent
   • 2010, Louisa Shea, The Cynic Enlightenment: Diogenes in the Salon (page 7)

     Diogenes Laertius reports that Diogenes was apt to take the identification with the dog at face value, as when he lifted his leg and relieved himself on a group of young insolents who teased him with a dog's bone […]

• insolent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• insolent in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• insolent at OneLook Dictionary Search

From Latin insolens.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /in.soˈlent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /in.suˈlen/

insolent (masculine and feminine plural insolents)

1. insolent

• insolentment

• insolència

• “insolent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “insolent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “insolent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “insolent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sɔ.lɑ̃/

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• Homophone: insolents

insolent (feminine singular insolente, masculine plural insolents, feminine plural insolentes)

1. insolent

• insolemment

• insolence

• “insolent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).