noun an encounter either friendly or hostile.
2. affront ·noun an offense to one's self-respect; shame.
3. affront ·vt to front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
4. affront ·vt to face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.
5. affront ·noun contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.
6. affront ·vt to offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.