Ridicule vs Insult - What's the difference?
ridicule | insult |
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
(obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).
*, II.3.3:
To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).
(obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.
* Savage
* 1987 , Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda :
Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.
(medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.
* 2006 , Stephen G. Lomber, Jos J. Eggermont, Reprogramming the Cerebral Cortex (page 415)
* 2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 96:
(obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
In transitive terms the difference between ridicule and insult
is that ridicule is to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of while insult is to offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).In obsolete terms the difference between ridicule and insult
is that ridicule is ridiculous while insult is the act of leaping on; onset; attack.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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* * ----insult
English
Verb
(en verb)- thou hast lost all, poor thou art, dejected, in pain of body, grief of mind, thine enemies insult over thee, thou art as bad as Job […].
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (to offend) abuse, affront, offend, slight * See alsoAntonyms
*complimentNoun
(en noun)- the ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief
- To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!
- The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.
- Within the complex genome of most organisms there are alternative multiple pathways of proteins which can help the individual cell survive a variety of insults , for example radiation, toxic chemicals, heat, excessive or reduced oxygen.
- (Dryden)
