Derided vs Ridiculed - What's the difference?
derided | ridiculed |
(deride)
To harshly mock; ridicule.
(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 derided and ridiculed
is that derided is (deride) while ridiculed is (ridicule).derided
English
Verb
(head)deride
English
Verb
(derid)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* derider * deridinglyExternal 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
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* See alsoSee also
* humiliationAdjective
(en adjective)- This action became so ridicule . — Aubrey.