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Ridicule vs Satirize - What's the difference?

ridicule | satirize |

As verbs the difference between ridicule and satirize

is that ridicule is to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of while satirize is to make a satire of; to mock.

As a noun ridicule

is derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour.

As an adjective ridicule

is (obsolete) 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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    satirize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make a satire of; to mock.