Word Meanings - LAMPOON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden. (more info) drink, -- the burden of such

Additional info about word: LAMPOON

A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden. (more info) drink, -- the burden of such a song, fr. lamper to guzzle, to drink much and greedily; of German origin, and akin to E. lap to drink. Prob. so called because drinking songs often contain personal slander

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LAMPOON)

• Libel
• Defamation
• detraction
• traducement
• calumny
• slander
• defamatory publication
• lampoon
• Satire
• Invective
• sarcasm
• burlesque
• pasquinade
• irony
• ridicule

Related words: (words related to LAMPOON)

• SARCASM
  A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Sir J. Reynolds. Syn. -- Satire;
• PASQUINADE
  A lampoon or satirical writing. Macaulay.
• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• TRADUCEMENT
  The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
• INVECTIVE
  Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.
• LAMPOONER
  The writer of a lampoon. "Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers." Tatler.
• PUBLICATION
  1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel;
• SLANDER
  Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.
• LIBELLEE
  The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action. The defendant in an action of libel.
• LIBELANT
  One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court. Cranch.
• SARCASMOUS
  Sarcastic. "Sarcasmous scandal." Hubidras.
• SATIRE
  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 1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up
• INVECTIVELY
  In an invective manner. Shak.
• LAMPOON
  A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden. (more info) drink, -- the burden of such
• LIBELLULID
  A dragon fly.
• BURLESQUER
  One who burlesques.
• BURLESQUE
  1. Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire. Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among
• IRONY
  1. Dissimulation; ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist. 2. A sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words.
• SLANDERER
  One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.
• ISLANDER
  An inhabitant of an island.
• BELIBEL
  To libel or traduce; to calumniate. Fuller.
• DISSLANDER
  To slander. Legend of Dido.