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" He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts."
Robert E. Sherwood

Meaning of "derision" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DERISION

From Late Latin dērīsiō, from Latin dērīsus.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DERISION

dɪˈrɪʒən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DERISION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Derision is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DERISION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pejorative

A pejorative is a word or grammatical form of expression that expresses contempt, criticism, hostility, disregard and/or disrespect. A term can be regarded as pejorative in some social or cultural groups but not in others, e.g., hacker is a term used for computer criminals as well as quick and clever computer experts. Sometimes, a term may begin as a pejorative and eventually be adopted in a non-pejorative sense in some or all contexts, e.g., "punk" or "dude". In historical linguistics, this phenomenon is known as melioration, or amelioration, reclaiming, or semantic change. Name slurs can also involve an insulting or disparaging innuendo, rather than being a direct derogatory remark. In some cases, a person's name can be redefined with an unpleasant or insulting meaning, or applied to a group of people considered by the majority to be inferior or lower in social class, as a group label with a disparaging meaning. Also, an ethnic slur or racial slur can be used as a pejorative to imply people of those groups are inferior or deficient.

Definition of derision in the English dictionary

The definition of derision in the dictionary is the act of deriding; mockery; scorn. Other definition of derision is an object of mockery or scorn.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DERISION

abrasion · collision · decision · division · envision · equation · Eurovision · evasion · Frisian · invasion · irrision · misprision · occasion · precision · provision · revision · subdivision · supervision · television · vision

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DERISION

deride · derider · deridingly · derig · deringer · derisible · derisive · derisively · derisiveness · derisory · derivable · derivably · derivate · derivation · derivational · derivationist · derivatisation · derivatise · derivative · derivatively

WORDS THAT END LIKE DERISION

blurred vision · cable television · cablevision · cell division · circumcision · colour television · commercial television · commission · concision · double vision · educational television · excision · field of vision · incision · infantry division · interactive television · long division · night vision · panzer division · prevision · satellite television

Synonyms and antonyms of derision in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DERISION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «derision» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «derision» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DERISION

Find out the translation of derision to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of derision from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «derision» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

嘲弄
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

irrisión
570 millions of speakers
en

English

derision
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

उपहास
380 millions of speakers
ar

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السخرية
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

высмеивание
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

escárnio
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

উপহাস
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

dérision
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Derision
190 millions of speakers
de

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Spott
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

あざけり
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

조롱
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Derision
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chế nhạo
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

ஏளனம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

उपहास
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

alay
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

derisione
65 millions of speakers
pl

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szyderstwo
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

висміювання
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

bătaie de joc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χλευασμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bespotting nie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hån
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hån
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of derision

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DERISION»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of derision
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «derision».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about derision

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8 QUOTES WITH «DERISION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word derision.
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Charlotte Le Bon
I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.
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Edward Lampert
The pushback I get is, 'He's a hedge fund guy.' Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it's almost a term of derision.
3
Richard Madden
When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.
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Richard Madden
When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them. It's not easy being known as 'the kid from the TV show.' Not in school it's not.
5
Elizabeth Price
Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.
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Anna Seward
To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
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Robert E. Sherwood
He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.
8
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DERISION»

Discover the use of derision in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to derision and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Derision of Heaven: A Guide to Daniel
And how can God still be in control of all things? This book will help you answer these questions. More than a guide to Daniel, The Derision of Heaven is an urgent message for the exiled church.
Michael Whitworth, 2013
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Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)
rision agree as to the end but differ in mode, because derision is done with the mouth, i.e. by words and laughter, while laughing to scorn is done by wrinkling the nose, as a gloss says on Ps. ii. 4, He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: ...
St Thomas Aquinas, 2013
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The theological works: containing his porta Mosis and ...
gam, rendred* their derision ', which word may be understood, either of that whereby they derided others, so taking them as the agents, the persons that deride ; or of that wherein they were or should be derided, making them as patients, those ...
Edward Pococke, Leonard Twells, 1740
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English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order
Derision and mockery evince themselves by the outward actions in general; ridicule consists more in words than actions; rallying and bordering almost entirely in words. Deride is not so strong a term as mock, but much stronger than ridicule.
George Crabb, 1816
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Understanding The Prophetic: A Training Manual for Prophetic ...
... persuaded; Y as persuaded; Y as persuaded; Youarou arou arou arou are strestrestrestrestrongongongongonger than I, and er than I, and er than I, and er than I, and er than I, and have prevailed. Iam in derision daily; everyone mocks me.
Ashish Raichur, 2010
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The Starfleet Messages: A Galactic Guide to Spiritual Expansion
FREQUENCY DERISION OCCURS WHEN FORCES OUTSIDE THE frequency cause anomalies in the structure of the frequency. The frequency does not “break down,” but begins to exhibit some distortion in its wave pattern. Sometimes the ...
Catherine Richardson, 2009
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Purim in a New Light: Mystery, Grandeur, and Depth; Revealed ...
The worship of idols derives from the human ability to raise an illusion that merits derision to the level of significance and importance. This will explain why the Sages chose the ridicule of false gods as the best example of permissible scoffing.
‎2003
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A Book of the Beginnings
Psalm lxi. is to the chief musician upon Neginah. According to Fuerst, NEGINAH means a song of derision in Psalms lxix. 12, and Job xxx. 9. Nekhi (Eg.) is derision, but if we read " I am thy derision," 8 no song is demanded. So in Psalm lxix.
Gerald Massey, 2007
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Descartes and Cartesianism
First, derision (la moquerie) is an example of one such other- oriented passion. Derision “is a kind of joy mixed with hatred, which results from our perceiving some small evil in a person whom we consider to deserve it. . . . When this comes  ...
Nathan Smith, Jason Taylor, 2005
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Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial
The aggression inherent in the joke and the stereotype cannot really keep the ' other' at bay; the desire for the other always compromises the difference and distance proclaimed by derision. A study of derision in the postcolonial context has to ...
Susanne Reichl, Mark Stein, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DERISION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term derision is used in the context of the following news items.
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Putin is weak: The Russian strongman is terrified of losing control …
... his intention to reassume the Presidency in March, possibly for another twelve years, he was experiencing an unmistakable tide of derision.". «Vox, Jul 15»
2
Smith: Milner is a case study for hard work
Every mistake was greeted with howls of derision: every misplaced pass, every scuffed chance, every missed tackle, all of them drew the ire of ... «ESPN FC, Jul 15»
3
Five times Canadian troops were called in to battle disaster
... winters are mild by the standards of most other provinces (and even parts of northern Ontario), so other Canadians reacted with derision. «The Weather Network, Jul 15»
4
Patriots Defensive Position-by-Position Breakdown and Depth Chart …
Even those distinctions of 3-4 and 4-3 are met with derision from Belichick at times, and he has even called it a "media fabrication. «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
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Nike's Swoosh Meets Jim Harbaugh's Khakis
Cultural tastes for khakis have evolved over the past two decades from a form of casual chic to an object of derision. In a popular advertisement ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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Cooking Off the Cuff: Frittatine -- Fried Mac-n-Cheese By Not Just …
... something that is evidently highly prized in Scotland and is an object of good-humored derision in many other places. (To me it sounds as if it ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Not a good idea: Police warn gun-shaped iPhone case could be …
... on Amazon suggest that consumers see the same safety hazard as law enforcement officials — and are even more frank in their derision. «National Post, Jul 15»
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Soldiers jostle HDP deputy at site where 34 were killed
Şırnak's governor previously invited derision after claiming in April that mules that have been systematically shot dead by security forces to ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Jul 15»
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Syriza's German Fixation?
Unsurprisingly, the move was met with angry derision by other eurozone leaders. According to the Greek government, the current arrangement ... «Today's Zaman, Jul 15»
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Hillary speaks
... to almost universal derision. The historic comparison that comes to mind is the debut of silent movie mega-star Greta Garbo in her first talking ... «American Thinker, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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