Ridicule vs Disappoint - What's the difference?
ridicule | disappoint | Related terms |
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
To displease by e.g. underperforming
(Internet slang)
As verbs the difference between ridicule and disappoint
is that ridicule is to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of while disappoint is to displease by e.g. underperforming.As a noun ridicule
is derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour.As an adjective ridicule
is ridiculous.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.
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English
Verb
- His lack of respect disappointed her.
- I am disappointed by this year's revenue.