Found 3 items, similar to ridicule.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: ridicule
cemoohan, cemuh, ejekan, gonyak, kebadutan, membagai, mencemooh, mencemoohkan, mencemuhkan, mengejek, mengelakari, mengguraukan, tertawaan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: ridicule
ridicule
n 1: language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
2: the act of deriding or treating with contempt [syn:
derision]
ridicule
v : 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:
roast,
guy,
blackguard,
laugh at,
jest at,
rib,
make fun
,
poke fun]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ridicule
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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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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Ridicule
\Rid"i*cule\, a. [F.]
Ridiculous. [Obs.]
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This action . . . became so ridicule. --Aubrey.
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