Meaning of "ridicule" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RIDICULE

From French, from Latin rīdiculus, from rīdēre to laugh.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF RIDICULE

ridicule  [ˈrɪdɪˌkjuːl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RIDICULE

Ridicule is a verb and can also act as 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.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb ridicule in English.

WHAT DOES RIDICULE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ridicule

Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself. The story examines the social injustices of late 18th century France, in showing the corruption and callousness of the aristocrats.

Definition of ridicule in the English dictionary

The definition of ridicule in the dictionary is language or behaviour intended to humiliate or mock; derision. Other definition of ridicule is to make fun of, mock, or deride.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RIDICULE

PRESENT

Present

I ridicule

you ridicule

he/she/it ridicules

we ridicule

you ridicule

they ridicule

Present continuous

I am ridiculing

you are ridiculing

he/she/it is ridiculing

we are ridiculing

you are ridiculing

they are ridiculing

Present perfect

I have ridiculed

you have ridiculed

he/she/it has ridiculed

we have ridiculed

you have ridiculed

they have ridiculed

Present perfect continuous

I have been ridiculing

you have been ridiculing

he/she/it has been ridiculing

we have been ridiculing

you have been ridiculing

they have been ridiculing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I ridiculed

you ridiculed

he/she/it ridiculed

we ridiculed

you ridiculed

they ridiculed

Past continuous

I was ridiculing

you were ridiculing

he/she/it was ridiculing

we were ridiculing

you were ridiculing

they were ridiculing

Past perfect

I had ridiculed

you had ridiculed

he/she/it had ridiculed

we had ridiculed

you had ridiculed

they had ridiculed

Past perfect continuous

I had been ridiculing

you had been ridiculing

he/she/it had been ridiculing

we had been ridiculing

you had been ridiculing

they had been ridiculing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will ridicule

you will ridicule

he/she/it will ridicule

we will ridicule

you will ridicule

they will ridicule

Future continuous

I will be ridiculing

you will be ridiculing

he/she/it will be ridiculing

we will be ridiculing

you will be ridiculing

they will be ridiculing

Future perfect

I will have ridiculed

you will have ridiculed

he/she/it will have ridiculed

we will have ridiculed

you will have ridiculed

they will have ridiculed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been ridiculing

you will have been ridiculing

he/she/it will have been ridiculing

we will have been ridiculing

you will have been ridiculing

they will have been ridiculing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would ridicule

you would ridicule

he/she/it would ridicule

we would ridicule

you would ridicule

they would ridicule

Conditional continuous

I would be ridiculing

you would be ridiculing

he/she/it would be ridiculing

we would be ridiculing

you would be ridiculing

they would be ridiculing

Conditional perfect

I would have ridicule

you would have ridicule

he/she/it would have ridicule

we would have ridicule

you would have ridicule

they would have ridicule

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been ridiculing

you would have been ridiculing

he/she/it would have been ridiculing

we would have been ridiculing

you would have been ridiculing

they would have been ridiculing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you ridicule
we let´s ridicule
you ridicule

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to ridicule

Past participle

ridiculed

Present Participle

ridiculing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «RIDICULE»

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

synonyms of ridicule

banter · caricature · chaff · deride · derision · gibe · humiliate · irony · jeer · lampoon · laughter · make fun of · mock · mockery · parody · poke fun at · pooh-pooh · raillery · rib · sarcasm · satire · satirize · scorn · send up · sneer · taunt · taunting

TRANSLATION OF RIDICULE

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

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

• Translator English - Chinese: 嘲笑
• Translator English - Spanish: ridiculizar
• English: ridicule
• Translator English - Hindi: उपहास
• Translator English - Arabic: السخرية
• Translator English - Russian: насмешки
• Translator English - Portuguese: ridicularizar
• Translator English - Bengali: উপহাস
• Translator English - French: ridiculiser
• Translator English - Malay: Mengejek
• Translator English - German: verspotten
• Translator English - Japanese: ばかにする
• Translator English - Korean: 조롱하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Ridicule
• Translator English - Vietnamese: chê cười
• Translator English - Tamil: வேடிக்கையான
• Translator English - Marathi: उपहास
• Translator English - Turkish: alay
• Translator English - Italian: ridicolizzare
• Translator English - Polish: ośmieszanie
• Translator English - Ukrainian: глузування
• Translator English - Romanian: ridicol
• Translator English - Greek: γελοιοποίηση
• Translator English - Afrikaans: bespotting
• Translator English - Swedish: hån
• Translator English - Norwegian: latterliggjøring

10 QUOTES WITH «RIDICULE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ridicule.

1

Louisa May Alcott

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

2

Gloria Allred

People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.

3

Thomas Aquinas

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

4

Rowan Atkinson

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

5

Robert Ballard

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

6

Glenn Beck

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

7

William Blake

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

8

Matt Bomer

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

9

Arthur Bremer

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

10

Richard H. Davis

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RIDICULE»

Discover the use of ridicule in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ridicule and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour

Both a significant work of scholarship and a novel contribution to the understanding of the humourous, this is a seriously engaging book' - David Inglis, University of Aberdeen This delightful book tackles the prevailing assumption that ...

Michael Billig, 2005

Reflexions Upon Ridicule: Or, what it is that Makes a Man ...

But those that Ridicule it when they are Young, act the same, over in their- turn, unable to resolve to follow the Advice they have given, and take the Resolution of a Retreat, tho' they have no other Opinion left. Ly/ionne, at Seventy Six Years of ...

Bellegarde (M. l'abbé de, Jean Baptiste Morvan), 1717

An Essay on Ridicule

1753. An Essay on Ridicule belongs to a series of tracts, written by a man of business for his winter evening amusement, to show the usefulness and necessity of experimental reasoning in philological and moral inquiries.

Anonymous, 2010

Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England

In this respect ridicule may be said to “test” assertions of truth. If propositions fail this test, it is not because the wit has deliberately mispresented them, but because wit has revealed their true imposture. “There is a great difference,” Shaftesbury ...

Professor Roger D Lund, 2013

Laugh at the Blue Moon Crying: A Ridicule of Life and Love

If you are looking for life's answers, this is where you'll find them. Life & love, loss & death, romance & ridicule.

Philip W. Crawford, 2004

Pleasure of Fools: Essays in the Ethics of Laughter

For our purposes, any successful defence of ridicule opens a new lifeline to the possibility of ethical laughter, which makes this issue particularly interesting. The main philosophical advocate of ridicule in the eighteenth century was Anthony ...

Jure Gantar, 2005

Reflexions Sur Le Ridicule, Et Sur Les Moyens de L'eviter: ...

Où Sont Représentez Les Différens Caractéres & Les Moeurs Des Personnes de Ce Siécle Bellegarde (M. l'abbé de, Jean Baptiste Morvan). remomrances aux hommes sur ce chapitre , à qu'on les avertir que les louanges qu'ils se donnent, ...

Bellegarde (M. l'abbé de, Jean Baptiste Morvan), 1729

Companions in Crime: The Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct

FEAR OF RIDICULE Ridicule is a mechanism of social control in many and perhaps all human societies (Bierstedt, 1957). Though it is often expressed verbally, ridicule may also be conveyed through facial expressions, gestures, laughter, ...

Mark Warr, 2002

Easing the Teasing: Helping Your Child Cope with ...

Children need concrete ways to cope with teasers and the emotional turmoil teasing can cause. In Easing the Teasing, Judy Freedman draws from seventeen years of experience as a social worker in a suburban Chicago school system.

Judy Freedman, 2002

Mark Akenside: A Reassessment

III The ideas discussed above form an important backdrop to Akenside 's own theory of ridicule, but before examining this in detail, it is worth reconstructing the fierce imbroglio in which he became involved. The origin of this controversy dates  ...

Robin Dix, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RIDICULE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ridicule is used in the context of the following news items.

'Yoursay' comments not meant to ridicule Islam

One of Malaysiakini's most unique features is the comments posted by its readers. Some of these are compiled as 'Yoursay' pieces, meant to provide a snapshot ... «Malaysiakini, Jun 15»

Andy Burnham's 'humble and obedient' reply to Prince Charles

Andy Burnham, the Left-wing frontrunner to be next Labour leader, risked ridicule last night after the release of a letter he wrote to Prince Charles with a ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»

The limits to ridicule

“ALL right, fine, but you're missing the crucial point,” said one of David Cameron's captains, when Bagehot bothered him with some snipe or other at the ... «The Economist, Apr 15»

Book by Slain Charlie Hebdo Editor Argues Islam Is Not Exempt …

The book, “Open Letter to the Fraudsters of Islamophobia Who Play Into Racists' Hands,” argues that all religions, including Islam, are fair game for ridicule in ... «New York Times, Apr 15»

Gwyneth Paltrow sparks ridicule with $38 food stamps grocery shop

But her low carb, low fat shopping list has invited ridicule and concern in equal measure, as critics take to social media to point out that busy mothers need to ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 15»

21st century Christians 'often suffer ridicule or persecution'

Being a Christian can often bring “ridicule, condemnation, or even persecution” according to the primate of all Ireland. Speaking at Holy Thursday Chrism Mass, ... «Irish Examiner, Apr 15»

Police in Taber angry at ridicule the Alberta town has endured over …

TABER, Alta. — Insp. Graham Abela is an angry man. Not yell, swear or spit-on-the-sidewalk angry but angry just the same over the public ridicule Taber, Alta., ... «National Post, Mar 15»

Dear Abby: Ridicule of mother-in-law not a laughing matter

Dear Abby: My wife, “Barb,” and I have been married for 21 years. We recently visited my mom, a widow in her 80s. Barb caught a cold while we were there and ... «SFGate, Mar 15»

Wardrobe clash at S-League match draws flak, ridicule

Responding to The Straits Times, an S-League spokesman apologised for the "one-off incident", which drew criticism and ridicule from fans and officials. «The Straits Times, Mar 15»

Humour in the 13th century characterized by ridicule

"The elite used humour very deliberately – most often to ridicule others. Humour established a form of group affiliation and a clearer distinction between friends ... «Phys.Org, Feb 15»