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RIDICULE definition: 1. unkind words or actions that make someone or something look stupid: 2. to laugh at someone in…. Learn more.
- English (US)
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To ridicule is to make fun of, either sportively and good-humoredly, or unkindly with the intention of humiliating: to ridicule a pretentious person. To deride is to assail one with scornful laughter: to deride a statement of belief.
When you ridicule someone, you mock or make fun of them. They become the object of your ridicule or mockery. Your bad behavior might bring ridicule on your parents, who raised you to know better. The word ridicule is related to ridiculous. If you ridicule a friend, you try to make them look ridiculous. But now that isn't very friendly!
The meaning of RIDICULE is the act of ridiculing : derision, mockery. How to use ridicule in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Ridicule.
To ridicule is to make fun of, either sportively and good-humoredly, or unkindly with the intention of humiliating: to ridicule a pretentious person. To deride is to assail one with scornful laughter: to deride a statement of belief.
If you ridicule someone or ridicule their ideas or beliefs, you make fun of them in an unkind way.
to laugh at someone in an unkind way: I was ridiculed for saying they might win. ridicule. noun [ U ] uk / ˈrɪdɪkjuːl / us. unkind behaviour in which you laugh at someone: I don't want to become an object of ridicule (= to be laughed at). (Definition of ridicule from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
