Dictionary Entry
ridicule
ridicule is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
- 4transitive verb
To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
- 5adjective
Ridiculous.
- 6noun
the act of deriding or treating with contempt
Synonyms
- 7noun
language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
- 8verb
subject to laughter or ridicule
"The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"
"The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"
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