Synonyms for RIDICULE
ˈrɪd ɪˌkyulridicule

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1. ridicule

   Banter is the touching upon some fault, weakness, or fancied secret of another in a way half to pique and half to please; badinage is delicate, refined banter. Raillery has more sharpness, but is usually good-humored and well meant. Irony, the saying one thing that the reverse may be understood, may be either mild or bitter. All the other words have a hostile intent. Ridicule makes a person or thing the subject of contemptuous merriment; derision seeks to make the object derided seem utterly despicable — to laugh it to scorn. Chaff is the coarse witticism of the streets, perhaps merry, oftener malicious; jeering is loud, rude ridicule, as of a hostile crowd or mob. Mockery is more studied, and may include mimicry and personal violence, as well as scornful speech. A satire is a formal composition; a sarcasm may be an impromptu sentence. The satire shows up follies to keep people from them; the sarcasm hits them because they are foolish, without inquiring whether it will do good or harm; the satire is plainly uttered; the sarcasm is covert.

   Synonyms:
   badinage, banter, chaff, derision, irony, jeering, mockery, raillery, sarcasm, satire

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1. ridiculenoun

   Synonyms:
   derision, banter, raillery, burlesque, caricature, mockery, irony, satire, sarcasm, jeer, sneer, cachinnation, disrespect

   Antonyms:
   veneration, respect, deference, salutation, honor, homage

2. ridiculeverb

   Synonyms:
   lampoon, deride, mock at, laugh at, jeer

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1. ridiculenoun

   language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate

   Synonyms:
   derision

2. derision, ridiculeverb

   the act of deriding or treating with contempt

   Synonyms:
   derision, ridicule

3. ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke funverb

   subject to laughter or ridicule

   "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"

   Synonyms:
   clapperclaw, blackguard, laugh at, make fun, rib, guy, ridicule, roast, jest at, shout, poke fun, abuse

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1. • Disrespect

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1. ridiculenoun

   Synonyms:
   derision, mockery, raillery, satire, sarcasm, gibe, jeer, sneer, banter

2. ridiculeverb

   Synonyms:
   deride (sportively), mock, scout, satirize, lampoon, jeer, taunt, rally, banter, chaff, laugh at, scoff at, treat with ridicule, hold up to ridicule, make game of, make a fool of, point the finger at, make fun of, make merry with, make a butt of, POKE FUN AT

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1. ridiculenoun

   Synonyms:
   mockery, gibe, jeer, burlesque, raillery, satire, sarcasm, irony

2. ridiculeverb

   Synonyms:
   deride, satirize, scoff, rally, banter, burlesque, lampoon, mock, scout, jeer, taunt, twit

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1. List of paraphrases for "ridicule":

   derision, ridiculous, mockery, laughingstock, laughable

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How to use RIDICULE in a sentence?

1. Robert Jeffress:

   When evangelicals tune into Fox News they know that their beliefs will be represented in a fair and balanced way for consideration, until Fox News came along, Christians could only expect the mainstream media to distort and ridicule their beliefs. Robert Jeffress is also a Fox News contributor( and a fellow Southern Baptist).

2. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield:

   Ridicule is the best test of truth.

3. Unknown:

   Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else.

4. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne:

   You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

5. The Trinidad-born rapper:

   It's a rock and a hard place. I can't be as upset at that lady. I'm upset at the fraternity because what they're saying is a chant that's just completely disrespectful to the black race. As far as that lady goes -- man, that's an old lady, man. Let that lady be. it's hard to ridicule somebody for something that you continue to use in your music.