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Ridicule vs Condemn - What's the difference?

ridicule | condemn |

In transitive terms the difference between ridicule and condemn

is that ridicule is to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of while condemn is to adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.

As a noun ridicule

is derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour.

As an adjective ridicule

is ridiculous.

ridicule

English

Verb

(ridicul)
  • to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
  • His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Noun

  • derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, / Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
  • An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
  • * Buckle
  • [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
  • * Foxe
  • To the people but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule .
  • The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
  • * Addison
  • to see the ridicule of this practice

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * humiliation

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) ridiculous
  • This action became so ridicule . — Aubrey.
    (Webster 1913)

    condemn

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.
  • To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
  • The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.
  • To scold sharply; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
  • The president condemns the terrorist.
    The president condemns the terrorist attacks.
  • To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
  • To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain
  • To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
  • (legal) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
  • Synonyms

    * damn * (to pronounce guilty) convict

    Antonyms

    * save * (to pronounce guilty) acquit