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Definition of Ridicule
1. Noun. Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate.
2. Verb. Subject to laughter or ridicule. "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
Generic synonyms: Bemock, Mock
Specialized synonyms: Tease, Lampoon, Satirise, Satirize, Debunk, Expose, Stultify
Derivative terms: Rib, Ribbing, Ridiculer, Roast
3. Noun. The act of deriding or treating with contempt.
Generic synonyms: Discourtesy, Offence, Offense, Offensive Activity
Specialized synonyms: Mock
Derivative terms: Deride, Ridiculous
Definition of Ridicule
1. n. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
2. v. t. To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
3. a. Ridiculous.
Definition of Ridicule
1. Verb. (transitive) to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of ¹
2. Noun. derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour ¹
3. Adjective. (obsolete) ridiculous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ridicule
1. to make fun of [v -CULED, -CULING, -CULES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ridicule
Literary usage of Ridicule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen (1881)
"ridicule is the proper antidote to every development of enthusiasm. ... He maintained
as a general principle that ridicule was the test of truth; ..."
2. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames, James Robert Boyd (1869)
"Those who have a ta-lent for ridicule, which is seldom united with a taste ...
Persons galled are provoked to maintain, that ridicule is improper for grave ..."
3. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, John Dewey, Ferdinand Gregorovius, George Sampson, Annie Hamilton, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"Minute philosophers, their talent for raillery and ridicule. 16. The wisdom of
those who make virtue alone its own reward. I. THE following day, ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"It is difficult to know how to characterize Martin Tupper, whose strange productions
have perhaps called forth more ridicule and sold more copies than those ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"against him as a reason therefor, for the humiliation and mortification he has
suffered, for the hatred, ridicule, and contempt which he has been made to ..."
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