Humiliated vs Ridiculed - What's the difference?
humiliated | ridiculed |
(humiliate)
deprived of dignity or self-respect
(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 humiliated and ridiculed
is that humiliated is past tense of humiliate while ridiculed is past tense of ridicule.As an adjective humiliated
is deprived of dignity or self-respect.humiliated
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(head)Adjective
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* degradedridiculed
English
Verb
(head)ridicule
English
Verb
(ridicul)- His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.
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* (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.