ridicule
VerbSubstantivAdjektivSubstantivin Dialogen belegt
- //ˈɹɪdɪkjuːl//
To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.
Verb
- 1
To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.
His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.
Herkunft
The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”). The noun is either from French, noun use of adjective, or from Latin rīdiculum, noun use of neuter of rīdiculus. The verb is from the noun or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule.
Substantiv
- 1
Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behavior.
Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.
When he was young you'd not find him doing well in school, His mind would turn unto the waters. Always the focus of adolescent ridicule, He has no time for farmer's daughters. Alienated from the clique society, A lonely boy finds peace in fishing.
- 2
An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
[Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
To the people […] but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule.
- 3
The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
to see the ridicule of this monstrous practice
More keenly alive perhaps than any of her sisters to the little ridicules that belonged to Mrs. Palmer's character, she yet saw how small was their importance, and that Mrs. Palmer was not only a better but a happier person than most of those with whom she was acquainted.
Adjektiv
- 1
veraltetridiculous
late 17th century, John Aubrey, Brief Lives This action […] became so ridicule.
Substantiv
- 1
historischA small woman's handbag; a reticule.
[…] while paying her own compliments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend to the good old lady’s replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold ridicule by her side, […]
I hastily drew my empty hand from my Ridicule.
“Tills be blowed!” said Mr. Claypole; “there’s more things besides tills to be emptied.” “What do you mean?” asked his companion. “Pockets, women’s ridicules, houses, mailcoaches, banks,” said Mr. Claypole, rising with the porter.
Herkunft
Apparently from French ridicule (“reticule”), probably a punning alteration of réticule after ridicule (“ridicule”).
Formen
- Plural
- ridicules
- Komparativ
- more ridicule
- Superlativ
- most ridicule
- Präteritum
- ridiculed
- Partizip II
- ridiculed
- Partizip I
- ridiculing
- 3. Person Singular
- ridicules
ridicule · To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.
ridiculous · Deserving of ridicule; foolish, absurd.ridiculously · In a ridiculous manner. In a way that is funny, embarrassing…riding · A path cut through woodland.