• Ridicule

    Pronunciation

    Origin

    From Latin ridiculus ("laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous"), from ridere ("to laugh").

    Full definition of ridicule

    Verb

    1. (transitive) to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun ofHis older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.

    Synonyms

    Noun

    ridicule

    (countable and uncountable; plural ridicules)
    1. derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
      • Alexander PopeSafe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne,
        Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
    2. An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
      • BuckleMarlborough was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
      • FoxeTo the people ... but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule.
    3. The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
      • Addisonto see the ridicule of this practice

    Synonyms

    Adjective

    ridicule

    1. (obsolete) ridiculousThis action ... became so ridicule. — Aubrey.
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