Ridicule
['rɪdɪkjuːl] or ['rɪdɪ'kjʊl]
Definition
(noun.) language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate.
(verb.) subject to laughter or ridicule; 'The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house'; 'The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher'; 'His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday'.
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Definition
(n.) An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
(n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.
(n.) Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
(v. t.) To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
(a.) Ridiculous.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Derision, mockery, raillery, satire, sarcasm, gibe, jeer, sneer, banter.
v. a. Deride (sportively), mock, scout, satirize, lampoon, jeer, taunt, rally, banter, chaff, laugh at, scoff at, treat with ridicule, hold up to ridicule, make game of, make a fool of, point the finger at, make fun of, make merry with, make a butt of, POKE FUN AT.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Derision, banter, raillery, burlesque, caricature, mockery, irony, satire,sarcasm, jeer, sneer, cachinnation, disrespect
ANT:Veneration, respect, deference, salutation, honor, homage
SYN:Lampoon, deride, mock_at, laugh_at, jeer,[See REVOKE_and_REVERSIBLE]
Checked by Lemuel
Definition
n. wit exposing one to laughter: derision: mockery.—v.t. to laugh at: to expose to merriment: to deride: to mock.—n. Rid′i cūler.—v.t. Ridic′ūlise.—n. Ridicūlos′ity.—adj. Ridic′ūlous deserving or exciting ridicule: absurd: (obs.) outrageous.—adv. Ridic′ūlously.—n. Ridic′ūlousness.
Checker: Nathan
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. It may be graphic mimetic or merely rident. Shaftesbury is quoted as having pronounced it the test of truth—a ridiculous assertion for many a solemn fallacy has undergone centuries of ridicule with no abatement of its popular acceptance. What for example has been more valorously derided than the doctrine of Infant Respectability?
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Examples
- His opponents tried to badger him in every way they could, and ridicule even his modest statements. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He started up red (for he was as sensitive to ridicule as any girl). Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In full sight of whom, the malignant star of the Analytical has pre-ordained that pain and ridicule shall befall him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Everybody is ready to dislike and ridicule any invention. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr. Winsor's absurd statements--in the truth of which he potently believed--and the wild, random manner of making them known, excited much ridicule and opposition. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- We are above reason; we are beyond ridicule; we see with nobody's eyes, we hear with nobody's ears, we feel with nobody's hearts, but our own. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I never saw her ridiculed before. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- As he fights he wins approval and advancement; as he refrains, he is disliked, ridiculed, shut out from favorable recognition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Such a character of God, if not ridiculed by our young men, is likely to be imitated by them. Plato. The Republic.
- These people whom she had ridiculed and yet envied were glad to make a place for her in the charmed circle about which all her desires revolved. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- By this means the attention of the public was fixed on that paper, and Keimer's proposals, which we burlesqued and ridiculed, were disregarded. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The laugh was so strange that Lily coloured under it: she disliked being ridiculed, and her father seemed to see something ridiculous in the request. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She scornfully ridiculed the idea. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They were talking out loudly about Birkin, ridiculing him on every point, particularly on his marriage. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Pockets, women's ridicules, houses, mail-coaches, banks! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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