Word Meanings - RIDICULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. Foxe. 2.

Additional info about word: RIDICULE

1. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. Foxe. 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. 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. Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. Pope. 3. Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness. To see the ridicule of this practice. Addison. Syn. -- Derision; banter; raillery; burlesque; mockery; irony; satire; sarcasm; gibe; jeer; sneer. -- Ridicule, Derision, Both words imply disapprobation; but ridicule usually signifies good-natured, fun-loving opposition without manifest malice, while derision is commonly bitter and scornful, and sometimes malignant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RIDICULE)

• Banter
• Badinage
• chaff
• mockery
• derision
• ridicule
• irony
• jeering
• raillery
• Gibe
• Sneer
• scoff
• jeer
• mock
• deride
• rail at
• taunt
• Insult Affront
• outrage
• dishonor
• provoke
• Irony
• Satire
• banter
• quiz
• rally
• sarcasm
• Rally Banter
• satirize
• joke
• twit

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RIDICULE)

• Compliment
• flatter
• panegyrize
• eulogize

Related words: (words related to RIDICULE)

• 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;
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• PANEGYRIZE
  To indulge in panegyrics. Mitford.
• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• CHAFFERY
  Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• BADINAGE
  Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.
• CHAFFER
  1. To buy or sell; to trade in. He chaffered chairs in which churchmen were set. Spenser. 2. To exchange; to bandy, as words. Spenser.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• INSULTING
  Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. -- In*sult"ing*ly, adv. Syn. -- Insolent; impertinent; saucy; rude; abusive; contemptuous. See Insolent.
• SARCASMOUS
  Sarcastic. "Sarcasmous scandal." Hubidras.
• AFFRONTEE
  One who receives an affront. Lytton.
• CHAFFINCH
  A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
• SNEER
  1. The act of sneering. 2. A smile, grin, or contortion of the face, indicative of contempt; an indirect expression or insinuation of contempt. "Who can refute a sneer" Raley.
• JEERER
  A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.
• AFFRONTEDLY
  Shamelessly. Bacon.
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
• ORALLY
  1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.