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Ridicule vs Foolish - What's the difference?

ridicule | foolish |

As adjectives the difference between ridicule and foolish

is that ridicule is (obsolete) ridiculous while foolish is lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.

As a verb ridicule

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

As a noun ridicule

is derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour.

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

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * humiliation

    Adjective

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

    foolish

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
  • :
  • *
  • *:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish , but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
  • Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
  • :
  • *(Aeschylus)
  • *:It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish .
  • Synonyms

    * absurd * idiotic * ridiculous * silly * unwise

    Antonyms

    * wise

    Derived terms

    * foolishness