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Ridicule vs Rally - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between ridicule and rally

is that ridicule is to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of while rally is to collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

As nouns the difference between ridicule and rally

is that ridicule is derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour while rally is a demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause.

As an adjective ridicule

is ridiculous.

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

    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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    rally

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) ralier ((etyl) rallier), from (etyl) prefix .

    Noun

    (rallies)
  • A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause
  • (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving]] and [[score, scoring a point.
  • (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
  • (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
    • Hyponyms
    * (increase in value) (l)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  • To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
  • * Dryden
    • The Grecians rally , and their powers unite.
  • * Tillotson
    • Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
  • To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
  • (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
    • Synonyms
    * (l) * (increase in value) (l), (l)
    Antonyms
    * (increase in value) (l)
    Derived terms
    * rallying point

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) railler. See .

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
  • * Addison
    • Honeycomb raillies me upon a country life.
  • * Gay
    • Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Good-humoured raillery.

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