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RIDICULE definition: 1. unkind words or actions that make someone or something look stupid: 2. to laugh at someone in…. Learn more.
The meaning of RIDICULE is the act of ridiculing : derision, mockery. How to use ridicule in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Ridicule.
To ridicule is to make fun of, either sportively and good-humoredly, or unkindly with the intention of humiliating: to ridicule a pretentious person. To deride is to assail one with scornful laughter: to deride a statement of belief.
Synonyms for RIDICULE: contempt, disdain, derision, laughter, insult, mockery, scorn, satire; Antonyms of RIDICULE: approval, praise, applause, commendation, approve, commend, applaud, endorse
To ridicule is to make fun of, either sportively and good-humoredly, or unkindly with the intention of humiliating: to ridicule a pretentious person. To deride is to assail one with scornful laughter: to deride a statement of belief.
RIDICULE definition: 1. to laugh at someone in an unkind way: 2. unkind behaviour in which you laugh at someone: . Learn more.
ridicule. noun. /ˈrɪdɪkjuːl/. /ˈrɪdɪkjuːl/. [uncountable] unkind comments that make fun of somebody/something or make them look silly synonym mockery. She is an object of ridicule in the tabloid newspapers. to hold somebody up to ridicule (= make fun of somebody publicly) Extra Examples.
ridicule somebody/something to make somebody/something look silly by laughing at them or it in an unkind way. They ridicule the president as a man who has lost control of events. At first, his theory was ridiculed and dismissed.
When you ridicule someone, you mock or make fun of them. They become the object of your ridicule or mockery. Your bad behavior might bring ridicule on your parents, who raised you to know better.
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