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English Dictionary: ridicule	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ridicule n language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate the act of deriding or treating with contempt Synonym(s): derision, ridicule v 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" Synonym(s): ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ridicule \Rid"icule\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ridiculed};p. pr. & vb. n. {Ridiculing}.] To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule* toward or respecting. I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage. --Goldsmith. Syn: To deride; banter; rally; burlesque; mock; satirize; lampoon. See {Deride}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ridicule \Rid"i*cule\, a. [F.] Ridiculous. [Obs.] This action . . . became so ridicule. --Aubrey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ridicule \Rid"icule\, n. [F. ridicule, L. ridiculum a jest, fr. ridiculus. See {Ridiculous}.] 1. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule* of his contemporaries. --Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. --Foxe. 2. 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. We have in great measure restricted the meaning of ridicule, which would properly extend over whole region of the ridiculous, -- the laughable, -- and we have narrowed it so that in common usage it mostly corresponds to [bd]derision[b8], which does indeed involve personal and offensive feelings. --Hare. Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone. --Pope. 3. Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness. [Obs.] To see the ridicule of this practice. --Addison. Syn: Derision; banter; raillery; burlesque; mockery; irony; satire; sarcasm; gibe; jeer; sneer. Usage: {Ridicule}, {Derision}, Both words imply disapprobation; but ridicule usually signifies good-natured, fun-loving opposition without manifest malice, while derision is commonly bitter and scornful, and sometimes malignant.