Ridicule
Pronunciation
Origin
From Latin ridiculus ("laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous"), from ridere ("to laugh").
Full definition of ridicule
Verb
- (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)- derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
- Alexander PopeSafe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne,
Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. - 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.
- The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
- Addisonto see the ridicule of this practice