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

1. noun. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
2. 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.
3. noun. Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
4. transitive verb. To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting.
5. adjective. Ridiculous.
6. noun. the act of deriding or treating with contempt

   Synonyms: derision

7. noun. language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate
8. verb. subject to laughter or ridicule

   "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"

   "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"

   Synonyms: blackguard, guy, rib, roast

Synonyms

derision, blackguard, guy, rib, roast

Common word forms

ridiculed, ridiculer, ridicules, ridiculing

Words from these letters

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