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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: satire (0.00888 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to satire.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: satire
sindiran
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: satire
satire
n : witty language used to convey insults or scorn;
“he used
sarcasm to upset his opponent”;
“irony is wasted on the
stupid”;
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do
generally discover everybody's face but their
own”--Johathan Swift [syn:
sarcasm,
irony,
caustic remark
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Satire
Satire
\Sat"ire\ (?; in Eng. often ?; 277), n. [L. satira,
satura, fr. satura (sc. lanx) a dish filled with various
kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a
mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat,
satis, enough: cf. F. satire. See
Sate,
Sad, a., and cf.
Saturate.]
1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or
folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in
public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective
poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
[1913 Webster]
2. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to
reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade;
burlesque; wit; humor.
[1913 Webster]
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