Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

insult one's intelligence

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English

Syllables: in-sult one's in-tel-li-gence
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To treat someone as if they are not intelligent or enough to understand something obvious.

Inflected Forms

insults one's intelligence (present, singular) insulting one's intelligence (participle, present) insulted one's intelligence (participle, past) insulted one's intelligence (past)

Questions

What does insult one's intelligence mean?: To treat someone as if they are not intelligent or enough to understand something obvious.

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