"affronting" meaning in All languages combined

See affronting on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more affronting [comparative], most affronting [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} affronting (comparative more affronting, superlative most affronting)
  1. Offensive, causing an affront. Derived forms: affrontingly, affrontingness
    Sense id: en-affronting-en-adj-wz8xzDqf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 20 20 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 63 18 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 78 11 11

Noun [English]

Forms: affrontings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} affronting (plural affrontings)
  1. The offering of an affront.
    Sense id: en-affronting-en-noun-d3Phez8s

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} affronting
  1. present participle and gerund of affront Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: affront
    Sense id: en-affronting-en-verb-MZ5Eqqxj

Inflected forms

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