Usually means: Mocking someone or something harshly.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word ridicule:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ridicule: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ridicule: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ridicule: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ridicule: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ridicule: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ridicule, ridicule: Wordnik
  7. ridicule: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ridicule: Wiktionary
  9. ridicule: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ridicule: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ridicule: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ridicule, ridicule: Dictionary.com
  13. ridicule: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ridicule (film), Ridicule (movie), Ridicule: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ridicule: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ridicule: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ridicule: Rhymezone
  18. ridicule, ridicule: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ridicule: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Ridicule: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. Ridicule: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. ridicule: Free Dictionary
  23. ridicule: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ridicule: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ridicule: Literary Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ridicule: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ridicule: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ridicule: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ridicule: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.
▸ noun:  Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behavior.
▸ noun:  An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
▸ noun:  The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) ridiculous
▸ noun:  (now historical) A small woman's handbag; a reticule.

Similar:
poke fun, blackguard, derision, laugh at, guy, rib, jest at, make fun, ridiculize, laugh to scorn, more...

Opposite:
praise, commendation, admiration

Types:
irony, sarcasm, parody, satire, caricature, more...

Phrases:
hold up to ridicule, self ridicule, Appeal to ridicule, ridicule with satire, to ridicule, more...

Adjectives:
public, much, such, general, open, universal, personal, constant, gentle, only, ridiculous



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Similar:
poke fun, blackguard, derision, laugh at, guy, rib, jest at, make fun, ridiculize, laugh to scorn, more...

Opposite:
praise, commendation, admiration

Types:
irony, sarcasm, parody, satire, caricature, more...

Phrases:
hold up to ridicule, self ridicule, Appeal to ridicule, ridicule with satire, to ridicule, object of ridicule, subject to ridicule, expose to public ridicule, pertaining to literary ridicule, more...

Adjectives:
public, much, such, general, open, universal, personal, constant, gentle, only, ridiculous



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