ridicule
['ridikju:l]
n. 嘲笑, 愚弄, 笑柄

vt. 嘲笑, 嘲弄, 愚弄

[] 笑, 嘲弄, 讥笑



ridicule
[ noun ]

1. language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate

<noun.communication>

2. the act of deriding or treating with contempt

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

1. subject to laughter or ridicule

<verb.communication> blackguard guy jest at laugh at make fun poke fun rib roast
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

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.

[Marlborough] 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. [Obs.]

To see the ridicule of this practice. --Addison.

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.


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.

I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage.
--Goldsmith.

Syn: To deride; banter; rally; burlesque; mock; satirize;
lampoon. See {Deride}.


Ridicule \Rid"i*cule\, a. [F.]
Ridiculous. [Obs.]

This action . . . became so ridicule. --Aubrey.