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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
ridicule
n 1: language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
2: the act of deriding or treating with contempt [syn:
derision, ridicule]
v 1: 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" [syn: ridicule,
roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib,
make fun, poke fun]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Ridicule \Rid"i*cule\, n. [F. ridicule, L. ridiculum a jest, fr.
ridiculus. See Ridiculous.]
1. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a
laughing matter.
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[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his
deficiencies made him the ridicule of his
contemporaries. --Buckle.
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To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a
ridicule. --Foxe.
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2. 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.
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We have in great measure restricted the meaning of
ridicule, which would properly extend over whole
region of the ridiculous, -- the laughable, -- and
we have narrowed it so that in common usage it
mostly corresponds to "derision", which does indeed
involve personal and offensive feelings. --Hare.
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Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne,
Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. --Pope.
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3. Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness. [Obs.]
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To see the ridicule of this practice. --Addison.
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Syn: Derision; banter; raillery; burlesque; mockery; irony;
satire; sarcasm; gibe; jeer; sneer; ribbing.
Usage: Ridicule, Derision, mockery, ribbing: All four
words imply disapprobation; but ridicule and mockery
may signify either good-natured opposition without
manifest malice, or more maliciously, an attempt to
humiliate. Derision is commonly bitter and scornful,
and sometimes malignant. ribbing is almost always
good-natured and fun-loving.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Ridicule \Rid"i*cule\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ridiculed;p. pr. &
vb. n. Ridiculing.]
To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule
toward or respecting.
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I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage.
--Goldsmith.
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Syn: To deride; banter; rally; burlesque; mock; satirize;
lampoon. See Deride.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Ridicule \Rid"i*cule\, a. [F.]
Ridiculous. [Obs.]
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This action . . . became so ridicule. --Aubrey.
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5. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) |
RIDICULE, 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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Thesaurus Results for ridicule:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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