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Funny vs Ridicule - What's the difference?

funny | ridicule |

As adjectives the difference between funny and ridicule

is that funny is amusing; humorous; comical while ridicule is ridiculous.

As nouns the difference between funny and ridicule

is that funny is a joke while ridicule is derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour.

As a verb ridicule is

to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.

funny

English

Etymology 1

From .

Adjective

(er)
  • Amusing; humorous; comical.
    • When I went to the circus, I only found the clowns funny .
  • Strange or unusual, often implying unpleasant.
    • The milk smelt funny so I poured it away.
    I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
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    Related terms
    * fun

    Noun

    (funnies)
  • (humorous) A joke.
  • * 2014 , Brian Conaghan, When Mr. Dog Bites (page 54)
    • Everyone would be sitting on big fluffy white clouds singing songs, telling funnies and just enjoying the day.
  • (humorous) A comic strip.
  • * 2009 , R. P. Moffa, The Vaulted Sky (page 343)
    • His father was more likely to listen to the radio, although he would read the Sunday funnies , and his grandmother would only read the Italian language paper she picked up at the corner candy store.

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps a jocular use of (term). See above.

    Noun

    (funnies)
  • (British) A narrow boat for sculling.

    • 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

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    Related terms

    * deride * derision * ridiculous * ridiculosity

    See also

    * humiliation

    Adjective

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

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