Criticized vs Ridiculed - What's the difference?
criticized | ridiculed |
(criticize)
to find fault (with something)
to evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults
(ridicule)
to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
* Alexander Pope
An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
* Buckle
* Foxe
The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
* Addison
(obsolete) ridiculous
As verbs the difference between criticized and ridiculed
is that criticized is (criticize) while ridiculed is (ridicule).criticized
English
Verb
(head)criticize
English
Alternative forms
* criticise (UK )Verb
(criticiz) (transitive'' or ''intransitive )Hyponyms
* find fault * shoot down * trash out * fustigate * drub * excoriate * run downSee also
* scold * complainExternal links
* *ridiculed
English
Verb
(head)ridicule
English
Verb
(ridicul)- His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.
Synonyms
* (l)Noun
- Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, / Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
- [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 .
- to see the ridicule of this practice
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* humiliationAdjective
(en adjective)- This action became so ridicule . — Aubrey.