Ridicule

What do we mean by ridicule?

The act of using words, gestures, images, or other products of expression to evoke laughter or contemptuous feelings regarding a person or thing. noun

The words or other products of expression used in this way. noun

To expose to ridicule; make fun of. transitive verb

Ridiculous.

Mocking or jesting words intended to excite laughter, with more or less contempt, at the expense of the person or thing of whom they are spoken or written; also, action or gesture designed to produce the same effect. noun

An object of mockery or contemptuous jesting. noun

Ridiculousness. noun

Synonyms Derision, mockery, gibe, jeer, sneer. See satire, ludicrous, and banter, verb noun

To treat with ridicule; treat with contemptuous merriment; represent as deserving of contemptuous mirth; mock; make sport or game of; deride.

Synonyms Deride, Mock, etc. (see taunt), jeer at, scoff at, scout; rally, make fun of, lampoon. See the noun.

To bring ridicule upon a person or thing; make some one or something ridiculous; cause contemptuous laughter.

A corruption of reticule, formerly common. noun

Ridiculous. adjective

To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting. transitive verb

An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. noun

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. noun

Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness. noun

To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of verb

Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour noun

Ridiculous adjective

Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour

An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.

The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.

Words that are spelled similarly to ridicule:
ridicule, ridicle, radicule, reticule, radicle, ridiculed, pedicule, edicule, ridicules, ridiculize, ridiculer, aedicule, ridiculus, lodicule, radiculo, radicula, silicule.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word ridicule:
sarcasm, scorn, mockery, humiliation, mocking, contempt, insult, ridiculous, satire, classmates, hostility, parody, peers, mock, jokes, harassment, humor, abuse, argument, punishment, criticism, victim, beliefs, dress, statements, belief.

Words that rhyme with ridicule:
school, rule, pool, cool, tool, fuel, fool, stool, cruel, dual, mule, vestibule, jewel, drool, tulle, minuscule, molecule, spool, yule, ghoul, joule, cesspool, whirlpool, carpool, preschool, overrule, istanbul, boule, thule, raul, high school, abdul, retool, liverpool, boole, highschool, dreul, poole, kool, old school, grammar school, sproule, goole, uncool, brule, swimming pool, tuille, skool, elementary school, public school, buhl, primary school, dule, middle school, april fool, golden rule, grade school, supercool, boarding school, misrule, machine tool, tuel, jule, secondary school, saccule, bellefeuille, blackpool, buel, boulle, motor pool, raoul, dzhambul, doole, junior high school, home rule, gag rule, prep school, preparatory school, juel, bulle, toole, hearsay rule, nursery school, slide rule, step stool, senior high school, graduate school, infant school, day school, home-school, majority rule, ground rule, sunday school, trade school, normal school, power tool, hand tool, poul, vocational school, business school.

Adjectives that are often used to describe ridicule:
public, much, such, more, general, open, universal, personal, constant, gentle, only, ridiculous, popular, considerable, merciless, possible, bitter, mild, contemptuous, natured, further, coarse, unsparing, exciting, grotesque, mere, comic, eternal, excited, ludicrous, scathing, scornful, endless, easy, subtle, severe, cruel, deserved, perpetual, cheap, widespread, undeserved, vulgar, heaped, pointed, frequent, ignorant, potent, keenest, clumsy, outright, self, occasional, savage, sarcastic, withering, sharp, est, keen, malicious, playful, less, slight, light, lively, continual, humorous, merited, pleasant, humoured, gross, extreme, profane, intense, verbal, pitiless, secret, friendly, unmerited.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective ridicule:
people, others, cast, religion, christianity, women, men, pole, lines, kills, axioms, disgust, everything, marriage, members, children, justice, talents, verb, attendant, night, students, authority, ideas, nothing, lead, windows, things, consequent, groups, society, affectation, individuals, officials, methods, superstition, dogma, garrick, sarcasm, girls, witnesses, mysteries, faith, noun, debates, teachers, kantism, decisions, plights, behavior, beliefs, priests, leaders, fathers, education, orders, attitudes, democracy, virtue, perfection.

Words that sound like ridicule:
ridicule, radicule, reticule, ridiculed, ridicules, ridiculer, ridicle, radical, ridiculing, recule, graticule, ridiculize, radicle, reticle, reticular, radikal, reticuli, reticula, rykiel, ridiculous, ridiculus, red cole, redacting, riddle, radicals, roadkill, riddel, riddell, radicchio, ridel, rydell, road kill, reductio, rydal.