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.

Edited by Bradley

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.

Typist: Michael

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

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