Ridiculed vs Embarrassed - What's the difference?
ridiculed | embarrassed |
(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
Having a feeling of shameful discomfort.
(embarrass)
As verbs the difference between ridiculed and embarrassed
is that ridiculed is (ridicule) while embarrassed is (embarrass).As an adjective embarrassed is
having a feeling of shameful discomfort.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.
External links
* * ----embarrassed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- After returning from the pool, Aleshia felt significantly better, though she was still slightly embarrassed .