Slight vs. Insult — What's the Difference?

Small in size, degree, or amount

An insult is an expression or statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful. Insults may be intentional or accidental.

Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail

To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness.

Of small importance or consideration; trifling

To affront or demean

Small and slender in build or construction; delicate.

(Obsolete) To make an attack on.

To treat (someone) with discourteous reserve or inattention

To behave arrogantly.

To treat as of small importance; make light of

An insulting remark or act.

To do negligently or thoughtlessly; scant

(Medicine) A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma.

To raze or level the walls of (a castle or other fortification).

Something that causes injury, irritation, or trauma

A deliberate discourtesy; a snub

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

Small.

To assail, assault, or attack; to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.

Gentle or weak, not aggressive or powerful.

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

Not thorough; superficial.

To leap or trample upon.

Trifling; unimportant; insignificant.

(uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.

Not far away in space or time.

(countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).

Of slender build.

Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.

(regional) Even, smooth or level.

An assault or attack; an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.

(especially said of the sea) Still; with little or no movement on the surface.

An act of leaping upon.

(obsolete) Foolish; silly; not intellectual.

The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

Bad, of poor quality.

Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity.

(dated) Slighting; treating with disdain.

An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes.

(transitive) To treat as unimportant or not worthy of attention; to make light of.

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

(transitive) To give lesser weight or importance to.

To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.

(transitive) To treat with disdain or neglect, usually out of prejudice, hatred, or jealousy; to ignore disrespectfully.

To leap or jump.

(intransitive) To act negligently or carelessly. en

To behave with insolence; to exult.

To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.

A rude expression intended to offend or hurt;

To make even or level.

A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront;

(transitive) To throw heedlessly.

Treat, mention, or speak to rudely;

The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.

(obsolete) Sleight.

Sleight.

The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.

To overthrow; to demolish.

To make even or level.

To throw heedlessly.

To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands.

Not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe; weak; gentle; - applied in a great variety of circumstances; as, a slight (i. e., feeble) effort; a slight (i. e., perishable) structure; a slight (i. e., not deep) impression; a slight (i. e., not convincing) argument; a slight (i. e., not thorough) examination; slight (i. e., not severe) pain, and the like.

Not stout or heavy; slender.

Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.

Slightly.

A deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

Pay no attention to, disrespect;

Having little substance or significance;

Almost no or (with `a') at least some; very little;

Being of delicate or slender build;