n. | 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. |
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. | |
3. | Quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness. | |
v. t. | 1. | To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridicule toward or respecting. |
a. | 1. | Ridiculous. |
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2. | ridicule - the act of deriding or treating with contempt Synonyms: derision | |
Verb | 1. | ridicule - 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" |